I can't find much on the effects of using authentic material, you'd need to understand the best methods of inducing communicative competence in students and theorise from there I guess: To improve the communicative competence of students: Hillocks, George, Jr. and Larry Ludlow. "A Taxonomy of Skills in Reading and Interpreting Fiction," American Educational Research Journal 21 (Spring 1984): 7-24.
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