Nowadays, learning a foreign language is regarded as an essential component in the curricula at different educational levels. In particular, learning English has become necessary given its widespread use throughout the world. Considering the worldwide importance of the use of English as a means of international communication, it seems that learning and teaching English is a necessity in our society. However, in order to make learners become communicatively competent in English, there was a need for a shift from previous theoretical frameworks, which consider language as a formal system based on grammatical rules, towards a more communicative perspective.