scholarly journals Teaching intercultural communicative competence through the four skills

2008 ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Usó Juan ◽  
Alicia Martínez Flor
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Linguistic System ◽  
Point Of Departure

Nowadays, the most accepted instructional framework in second or foreign language (L2) programs is Communicative Language Teaching, whose main goal is to increase learners’ communicative competence. This theoretical term means being able to use the linguistic system effectively and appropriately in the target language and culture. However, the implementation of a communicative methodology is not an easy task since it requires an understanding of the integrated nature of the theoretical concept of communicative competence (Celce-Murcia and Olshtain, 2005). Therefore, it is the main goal of this paper to help language teachers better understand such a theoretical concept for improving their classroom practices. In so doing, we first provide an explanation of the theoretical concept of communicative competence. Then, a current framework of communicative competence, which aims at highlighting the function of the four macro-skills to build discourse competence for communicative purposes and reflects our conceptualization of language teaching is briefly discussed (Usó-Juan and Martínez-Flor, 2006a). Finally, on the basis of this framework, and taking the intercultural component as the point of departure, a variety of activities in the four language skills are presented for teaching learners intercultural communicative competence.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AND ITS MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT THE PRACTICE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING (ELT)

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Sri Diana
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Major Focus ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Communicative Skills

Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) has been accepted as one of the teaching methods by numerous language teachers due to its major focus on developing learners’ communicative competence. This paper aims to describe communicative language teaching, misinterpretations about its practice and the factors leading to teachers’ misconceptions. It shows four misinterpreted beliefs of the implementation of communicative language teaching: communicative skills, teacher’s role in communicative activities, fluency and accuracy as the main goals and teaching techniques. It then presents three reasons that might lead to teachers’ misinterpretations concerning the practice of CLT. Teachers do not have enough training and  adequate resources.

scholarly journals STEREOTYPING IN THE CLASSROOM: PROMOTING INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Fauzul Aufa
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Efl Learners

Teaching and learning languages involve more than targeting grammatical and lexical knowledge. To achieve communicative competence in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context, EFL learners need to develop their intercultural competence. This article proposes one of influential aspects of target culture (i.e. stereotypes) that may be encountered by EFL learners in learning. Further, the author argues why learners need to be exposed with stereotyping features across cultures and how this can be incorporated into English Language Teaching (ELT) by providing an example of teaching activities that can be adapted in a language classroom. Briefly, it is expected that this article may provide EFL teachers with a better understanding of integrating intercultural elements of a target language in their teaching practice. In turn, this may be useful to facilitate EFL learners in developing their intercultural communicative competence particularly with regards to cultural stereotype features.

scholarly journals THE IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) IN AN EFL CONTEXT: A CASE STUDY OF LEARNERS' ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
Ekrem Eroz ◽  
Azamat A. Akbarov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Learner ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Attitudes And Perceptions ◽  
Exam System

This research study investigates the place of communicative language teaching in one of the capital Balkan cities in Sarajevo, in Bosnia by exploring attitudes and perceptions of Bosnian EFL students. A questionnaire survey was conducted to collect data from the target EFL learner groups. The findings of the survey revealed that Bosnian learners have positive views and attitudes toward communicative language teaching. According to Hymes (1972), the goal of language teaching is to improve the communicative competence of learners. That is why, educators should focus on the communication skills of learners rather than their grammar-based knowledge and being able to communicate effectively in the target language is the most important of all skills. However, some external factors, like exam system, high number of students in the classes, can be barriers to implement CLT effectively in different EFL contexts and they force teachers to use traditional methods in language teaching but this presumption is lower or almost unlikely in private education institutions thanks to the amenities. Supporting the view above, the results of survey also reported that EFL learners have favourable beliefs for the use of CLT in their classrooms and they believe that as a foreign language English learning is very important in their country and for their future careers. Key words: EFL (English as a Foreign Language), learner beliefs, communicative competence, CLT (communicative language teaching), English language teaching.

scholarly journals SOME LINGUISTIC SUGGESTIONS IN CONDUCTING MALAY LANGUAGE CLASSES

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-117
Author(s):  
KENICHI NAMAI
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Education ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Alternative Teaching ◽  
Language Classes ◽  
Quiet Students

Despite some skeptics, most foreign language teachers, especially those of English as a Foreign Language (EFL)/English as a Second Language (ESL), advocate Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) and have long been conducting student-centered communicative activities in their classrooms. This paper argues that CLT is generally ineffective in teaching quiet students and students with little motivation. In the context of teaching Malay as a foreign language, it introduces an alternative teaching approach that requires teacher-centered drill activities, which have been shown effective in EFL teaching in Japan, a country known for its typically quiet students, most of whom do not see a point in acquiring any practical skills of English. The paper demonstrates the necessity of explaining basic syntactic rules, some of which tend to be taken for granted, that are crucial in helping students of Malay develop a systematic grammar of their target language. Keywords: English education; Communicative language teaching; Japan; Grammar

scholarly journals Peculiarities of Communicative Approach in Foreign Language Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-301
Author(s):  
N. Wahedi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Negotiation Of Meaning ◽  
Essential Function ◽  
Conventional Methods

This paper looks briefly at the preconditions that gradually formed communicative language teaching (CLT) as a response to the growing demand and needs of non-native learners of English in many different contexts of learning, then draws a parallel between existing conventional methods of language teaching and novel insights presented by CLT. The constituent parts of Communicative competence are introduced. The negotiation of meaning is considered as the most essential function of the target language that learners are capable to master which allows them to maintain flexibility in a deliberate speech despite the gaps in their language proficiency. Besides, the article discusses the current limitations of CLT bound to several factors such as the lack of language proficiency, rigid curricula, and teachers’ misconceptions of CLT.

Didattica delle lingue in prospettiva interculturale: innovazione e potenzialità

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Manuela Derosas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Vast Literature ◽  
The Creation

Since the early ’80s the adjective "intercultural" in language learning and teaching has seemed to acquire a remarkable importance, although its meaning is strongly debated. As a matter of fact, despite the existence of a vast literature on this topic, difficulties arise when applying it in the classroom. The aim of this work is to analyze the elements we consider to be the central pillars in this methodology, i.e. a renewed language-and culture relation, the Intercultural Communicative Competence, the intercultural speaker. These factors allow us to consider this as a new paradigm in language education; furthermore, they foster the creation of new potentialities and configure the classroom as a significant learning environment towards the discovery of Otherness.

TECHNOLOGIES OF FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN EXTRACURRICULAR TIME AT THE MIDDLE STAGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марьям Магомедбековна Курбанова ◽  
Габибула Муталлипович Рабаданов
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Language Teaching ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
School Students ◽  
Middle Stage

Статья посвящена рассмотрению понятия межкультурной коммуникативной компетенции и различных технологий по ее формирования у учеников средней школы. The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of intercultural communicative competence and various technologies for its formation in secondary school students.

scholarly journals Culture and Language as Factors Related in the Process of Learning and Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Irena Papa
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Culture And Language

Communicative language teaching has become a familiar part of the landscape of language teaching in the last three or four decades. Teachers who perceive the objectives of teaching foreign languages associated with learning intercultural competence will be more inclined to make the process of teaching foreign languages more intercultural than teachers who perceive objectives as related to the acquisition of communicative competence. In this paper the relationship between culture and language is going to be explored by focusing on their role and impact in the process of learning languages and education.

scholarly journals Communicative Language Teaching Method in Teaching the Kazakh Language to Russian-Speaking Technical Students in Kazakhstan

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 152-158
Author(s):  
N. M. Aubakirov ◽  
A. A. Dolgopolova
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Technical Students ◽  
Traditional Grammar

The article deals with the specifics of teaching Kazakh language to Russian-speaking technical students at Karaganda State Technical University, Kazakhstan, in the light of the nationwide trilingualism policies. The paper explains ineffectiveness of the traditional grammar-translation method used today in many educational institutions. It  has been hypothesized that Kazakh language teachers should use the  Communicative language teaching (CLT) methodology, which is rather popular in the West and widely used for teaching foreign languages, in particular English, with its adaptation for Kazakhstan’s conditions. The study  gives a model of a communication-based lesson and proves its effectiveness  in teaching Kazakh language to Russian-speaking students as well as  suggests the possibility of its widespread implementation for training adult population in Kazakhstan.

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