Influence of Communicative Competence on Peer Preferences in a Preschool Classroom

1994 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-923 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany L. Gertner ◽  
Mabel L. Rice ◽  
Pamela A. Hadley
Keyword(s):  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Preschool Classroom ◽  
Communication Ability ◽  
Peer Popularity

Recent research suggests that children’s linguistic competence may play a central role in establishing social acceptance. That possibility was evaluated by examining children’s peer relationships in a preschool classroom attended by children with varying degrees of communication ability. Three groups of children were compared: children with normally developing language skills (ND), children with speech and/or language impairments (S/LI), and children learning English as a second language (ESL). Two sociometric tasks were used to measure peer popularity: positive nominations and negative nominations. Children in the ND group received more positive nominations than the children in either the ESL or S/LI groups. When the children’s positive and negative nominations were combined to classify them as Liked, Disliked, Low Impact, or Mixed, the ND children predominated in the Liked cell, whereas the other two groups of children fell into the Disliked or Low Impact cells. In addition, the PPVT-R, a receptive measure of single-word vocabulary, was found to be the best predictor of peer popularity. The findings are discussed in terms of a social consequences account of language limitations.

scholarly journals LEXICAL BUNDLES IN LEGAL TEXTS CORPORA – SELECTION, CLASSIFICATION AND PEDAGOGICAL IMPLICATIONS

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Veronika Tománková
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Lexical Bundles ◽  
Legal Professionals ◽  
Comprehensive View ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Register Analysis

This paper analyzes lexical bundles with the aim of determining specific features of the linguistic competence of the selected research population and drawing some pedagogical implications from the fi ndings. The study focuses on lexical bundles retrieved from four legal genre-based corpora (Flowerdew 2005) compiled from texts submitted by respondents who are all legal professionals. In an eff ort to provide a more comprehensive view of lexical bundles, the phenomenon has been treated using both the conventional register analysis approach (Biber & Conrad 2009) and an approach adopted especially for legal texts by Breeze (2013). The study also attempts to submit proposals for the teaching of lexical bundles (O’Keeff e et al. 2007: 216) in the context of reading comprehension. Within the context of needs analysis, this study has been conducted as part of a larger study aiming to examine communicative competence of legal professionals from the four language skills perspective.

scholarly journals Enabling students to articulate the value of language skills in an ever-changing work environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 67-73
Author(s):  
Caroline Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Teaching Excellence ◽  
Personal Brand ◽  
Evaluative Research ◽  
Language Module

This paper shares some of the findings of an evaluative research project funded by the Leeds Institute of Teaching Excellence (Brown et al., 2018). The project explored the value of ‘Broadening’ as part of the Leeds Curriculum and the value of language learning in the context of Institution-Wide Language Provision (IWLP). The paper focuses on the data gathered from interviews with employers and presents the findings around employer expectations of graduates and their perceptions of the value of language skills and cultural awareness. It considers how to enable students to articulate the knowledge, skills, and experience gained during their undergraduate journey. It identifies the value of language skills beyond linguistic competence and maps this to employer expectations. It proposes an end-of-module reflective task for any language module to enable students to articulate their personal ‘brand’ based on their knowledge and social capital, thus evidencing the breadth of their employability.

scholarly journals Needs Analysis of the Important Communicative Features at De La Salle University

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Fenty L. Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Foreign Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Strategic Competence ◽  
La Salle University

Article analyzed the needs of communicative competence and gather information on the features of communicative competence that are believed to be important by selected foreign graduate students studying at DLSU. The features consist of linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, strategic, and intercultural competences. Data were obtained by giving questionnaire to 33 foreign students, consisting of 11 male and 22 females and were analyzed qualitatively. The findings suggest that all features of communicative competence are crucial. In addition, the linguistic competence and strategic competence are considered to be the most essential features of the communicative competence. It can be concluded that the foreign graduate students learn English to achieve their communicative competence and it is used to communicate among students.

scholarly journals The formation of language competence in the system of the speech generalization semantics among students

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3B) ◽  
pp. 258-267
Author(s):  
Natalia A. Krasheninnikova ◽  
Valentina V. Voroshilova ◽  
Olga S. Polunina ◽  
Natalia V. Osipova ◽  
Nikolay N. Kosarenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Speech Development ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Psychological Characteristics ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Semantic Aspect

The article aims to study the specificities of an individually differentiated approach in the formation of speech generalization semantics and communicative competence in older preschool children. The main approach to the study of this problem is the analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches in the study of an individually differentiated approach to the linguistic competence of preschool children, which allows us to identify the most effective ones.  The article focuses on the concepts of individualization and differentiation in the development of the semantic aspect of speech and communicative competence, taking into account the individual psychological characteristics of the children. It is concluded that an individually differentiated approach increases the effectiveness of measures to form linguistic competence in the system of semantics of generalization of discourse. The materials of the article can be useful for speech therapists, specialists in preschool institutions that work in the area of speech development for older preschoolers, as well as for teachers in search of effective technologies for the formation of language skills.

Effective Usage Of Game Activities, Dialogues And Role-Plays In Communicative Language Teaching

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 72-79
Author(s):  
Fotima Abduvosiyevna Rafikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational System ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
National Standard ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Foreign Language Skills

At present, the English language is being taught by adapting world standards of Common European Framework Reference (CEFR) for teaching foreign languages to our national educational system. According to the Uzbek national standard the knowledge of the foreign language competence from the first to fourth grade is defined as A 1- for the beginner level. This article will disclose the formation and development of primary school learners’ foreign language skills through communicative competence.

scholarly journals Quarantine and Its Malcontents

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umberto Pellecchia
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Health Seeking ◽  
Epidemic Control ◽  
Public Health Measure ◽  
Health Measure ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
People’S Perceptions

AbstractThis article examines how populations affected by the Ebola epidemic in Liberia reacted to the implementation of mandatory, state-imposed quarantine as a way of curtailing transmission. The ethnography, based on in-depth fieldwork in both urban and rural areas, shows how mandatory quarantine caused severe social consequences for both people’s perceptions of epidemic control and their health-seeking behaviours. The authoritarian imposition of this public-health measure soon became a driver of social fear that contributed to the divide between institutions and population, jeopardising the control of transmission. Its implementation overshadowed more acceptable local quarantine measures that communities were organising to protect themselves from transmission. The analysis argues that quarantine in Liberia was counterproductive and suggests alternatives to epidemic control rooted in social acceptance and local practices.

scholarly journals The use of collocations across proficiency levels: a literature review

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 34129
Author(s):  
Larissa Goulart
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Word Association ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Formulaic Language ◽  
Correct Word ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
L2 Learners

This literature review focuses on the use of formulaic language by English as a second language students (L2). Research on the field of phraseology has shown that mastery of formulas is central for fluency and linguistic competence (Ellis, 1996). Studies on the use of formulaic language by native speakers (Ellis et al., 2008) have shown that native speakers process these structures as a single word. Considering the use of formulaic language by L2 students, research has shown that this can be problematic to learners as they do not know the correct word association (Men, 2018). This paper presents a literature review on the studies of formulaic language, more specifically of collocations, used by L2 learners. The first part of this paper deals with the different definitions of collocations, while the second part focuses on studies on collocation use by L2 learners.

Project work as a tool for communicative competence development

10.12737/3590 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Гозалова ◽  
Marina Gozalova
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Individual Contribution ◽  
Teaching Routine

The article focuses on research into project work as a learner’s activity contributing to the development and refinement of his / her communicative competence. The author states that, besides improving a learner’s linguistic competence and promoting his/her involvement with the learning process, project work favourably affects both communication standards and, more broadly, social behavior through providing ample room for cooperation, empathy, creativity, and individual contribution. Thus, embracing project work and making it part of the foreign language teaching routine will ensure that learners acquire communicative competence at a level that meets current requirements.

A Semantic Analysis of Signed Communication in an Activity-Based Classroom for Preschool Children Who Are Deaf

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Marvin ◽  
Kathleen R. Kasal
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Classroom Talk ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Preschool Classroom ◽  
Classroom Routines ◽  
Time Frames

The signed communication of five preschool children who are deaf (ages 4:5 to 5:6) was analyzed for its semantic content. Videotaped samples were collected while the children participated in activity-based classroom routines and familiar play themes with teachers and peers in a 2 1/2-hour preschool classroom. The children demonstrated expected limitations in their language skills (mean MLU=2.01) but talked about many of the same topics at school as children of the same age who were not disabled (Marvin, Beukelman, Brockhous, & Kast, 1994). The five children who are deaf generally talked about the here-and-now and themselves and appeared to be heavily influenced by the materials, people, and activities in the immediate environment of the preschool classroom. Talk concerning teachers, peers, class projects, needed supplies and utensils, and food were common and frequent in the children's talk with teachers and peers. Talk concerning temporally displaced topics was less frequent and less common than talk concerning present time frames. Child-initiated utterances were longer in length and more semantically diverse than teacher-prompted utterances. Implications of these findings for preschool deaf educators and speech-language pathologists are discussed.

scholarly journals Teaching the Four Language Skills in Primary EFL Classroom

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Eka Kurniasih
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
National Education ◽  
The Status ◽  
Teachers Training

English teachers in Indonesian primary schools are often in doubt about the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ to teach because most English teachers training colleges do not provide them with specialized training in how to meet the needs of primary school students; TEYL is a new and highly dynamic field; the status of English in the curriculum of primary schools in Indonesia is a local content, and thus the National Education Ministry does not provide English syllabus for primary school. Since the objective of teaching English in primary school is to provide a good basis for communicative competence as a foundation to study it in secondary school; the development of the four language skills should be made the focus of all learning activities. This paper provides some guidelines, which are adapted from some publications and discussions concerning TEYL for teaching the four language skills in primary schools.

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