The development of newer and quicker information storage and communication technologies (like the Internet, CD Rom and DVD encyclopedias…) is giving contemporary man access to an amount of information (and misinformation) that is beyond Gutenberg's wildest dreams. Therefore men have had to develop skills to manage the incredible amounts of information that is available in consistent and constructive ways to be able to participate actively in social life.

English is becoming a worldwide lingua franca (with the help of the Internet and American and British political and economical power); in our time it is necessary to be able to communicate efficiently in English (written and spoken) in a variety of contexts in order to study, do business, travel or access the information in the most of the World Wide Web.

Through the development of specific language-related areas such as reading, writing, researching, etc.  it is possible to develop not only linguistic abilities and communicative competence, but to tie those areas to using the language in real life situations, developing analytical processes, and acquiring cognitive skills.