scholarly journals THE ISSUE OF USING AUTHENTIC MATERIALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (28) ◽  
Author(s):  
E.Y Panferova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Authentic Materials

scholarly journals The Impact of Authentic Materials and Tasks on Students’ Communicative Competence at a Colombian Language School

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
César Augusto Castillo Losada ◽  
Edgar Alirio Insuasty ◽  
María Fernanda Jaime Osorio
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Language School ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group

This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language school at a Colombian public university. Its main purpose was to analyze the extent to which the use of authentic materials and tasks contributes to the enhancement of the communicative competence on an A2 level English course. A mixed study composed of a quasi-experimental and a descriptive-qualitative research design was implemented by means of a pre-test, a post-test, observations, semi-structured interviews, surveys, and diaries. The findings showed that the use of authentic materials and tasks, within the framework of a pedagogical project, had an impact on students’ communicative competence progress and on the teaching practices of the experimental group teacher.

scholarly journals The use of authentic materials in foreign language teaching on A1 level

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-214
Author(s):  
Natalia Aleksandrovna Gridneva
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Materials Selection ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Teaching Assessment ◽  
Material Usage ◽  
Educative Process

The following paper deals with the actual problem of authentic materials usage in foreign languages teaching on A1 level. The usage of authentic materials is regarded as one of the basic requirements of communicative approach meaning the highest possible likening of educative process to that of a real communication, and also as a precondition for sociocultural competence (an important part of communicative competence) development. As the main difficulty connected with authentic material usage (especially on A1 level) the problem of their deficient understanding by learners is regarded. The author gives a critical inquiry of widespread manner for easier authentic materials understanding through their preparatory methodic adaptation and makes arguments for uncontrolled materials usage (already on A1 level). While the main specialists handling this problem pay attention to possibilities of authentic materials usage on intermediate and advanced levels, the author analyzes their applying on A1 level. The author gives reasons for the importance and necessity of authentic materials usage with the beginners and formulates some concrete criteria for authentic materials selection on A1 level (based on Common European Framework of Reference: Learning, Teaching, Assessment and Russian Public Standard for Russian as a Foreign Language (Elementary Level - A1)).

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE TEACHING AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Neophilology ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Natalya Nikolayevna Tsurtsilina
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Cognitive Operations ◽  
Text Organization ◽  
Poetic Text ◽  
Poetic Texts

We advise to use authentic materials in Russian language teaching as a foreign language. We focus on the textual approach. We give recommendations for methodical selection and literary and poetic text organization to form a foreign language communicative competence. We consider the specificity of communication in a foreign language teaching. The understanding and producing speech in a foreign language is also important. The teacher should have the means to analyze not only the authentic artistic/poetic texts he/she introduces into the teaching but also the texts produced by the students themselves in order to advise, support, assist and consult. The teacher’s aim is firstly to ensure that students are familiar with the maximum number of different texts samples in a foreign language, and then to help them to structure these data, to organize their presentation, and learn the data, to offer different activities using various linguistic and cognitive operations, finally to evaluate and to create conditions for self-assessment of their own communicative competence.

ОБУЧЕНИЕ МЕДИЦИНСКОМУ АНГЛИЙСКОМУ ЯЗЫКУ С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ АУТЕНТИЧНЫХ АУДИОМАТЕРИАЛОВ / TEACHING MEDICAL ENGLISH WITH THE APPLICATION OF AUDIO AUTHENTIC MATERIALS

2021 ◽  
pp. 184-191
Author(s):  
Liana Arzumanyan
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Material Selection ◽  
Educational Material ◽  
Listening Skills ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Medical English

Статья посвящена специфике обучения аудированию медицинского английского языка в высших неязыковых учебных заведениях. Рассмотрены основные и специфические навыки и умения, которые необходимы специалисту для восприятия профессионально-значимых аудиотекстов, вопросы выбора учебного материала, проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются студенты, а также задачи, отвечающие требованиям аудитории. В статье предлагаются некоторые идеи, как улучшить развитие навыков слушания и расширить знания английского языка в медицинской сфере. Раскрыта также роль техники слушания в формировании иноязычной коммуникативной компетенции у студентов в неязыковых вузах. / The article is devoted to the specificity of teaching listening comprehension of medical English in higher non-linguistic institutions. The basic and specific skills and abilities that are necessary for a specialist in the perception of professionally significant audio texts, the questions of educational material selection, the problems faced by the learners, as well as the tasks that meet the requirements of the audience are considered. The article suggests some ideas how to improve the development of listening skills and extend the knowledge of English in the medical field. The role of listening technique in forming foreign language communicative competence of nonlinguistic training directions of students is revealed as well.

scholarly journals Authentic Materials and Tasks as Mediators to Develop EFL Students’ Intercultural Competence

HOW ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (27) ◽  
pp. 29-46
Author(s):  
Alix Norely Bernal Pinzón
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
English Students

This article reports on a study carried out in a foreign language course at a private Colombian university. Its purpose was to identify the role of authentic materials and tasks, based on cultural topics, in the development of intercultural competence in third-level English students. The pedagogical implementation of the activities was designed under criteria proposed by Cortazzi and Jin (1999) to evaluate the material with cultural content. In regard to intercultural competence, Byram’s (2002) dimension of intercultural communicative competence was the support for planning and implementing the tasks. In this qualitative action research study, two surveys, one interview, and teacher field notes were used to collect data. Findings indicate that students were able to understand interculturality, to show respect for other cultures, and to demonstrate interest in getting to know other societies. Likewise, the students reported their willingness to be open to discussing topics related to cultural aspects.

scholarly journals PERAN BUDAYA DALAM PEMEROLEHAN BAHASA ASING

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Zelvia Liska Afriani
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English Teachers ◽  
Cultural Literacy ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Classroom

This study aims at examining the role of culture in learning English as a foreign language. Previous researchers explained that there is an intimate relationship between language and culture. It is obviously mentioned that when someone is willing to learn a language, he also needs to learn its culture so as to master it fully. Therefore, the researcher would like to investigate whether the teachers at school has understood and implemented cultural literacy in the language classroom or not. In this study, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative study and gathered the information needed from some English teachers in North Bengkulu. The result shows that the English teachers has been aware of the importance of cultural literacy in English language classroom since it can enhance students’ communicative competence. There are some offered ideas that can be employed in introducing cultural literacy, such as using authentic materials, proverbs, role-play, students as cultural resources, ethnography study, and literature.   

Grammatical Competence within L2 Communication: Language Production, Monitor Hypothesis, and Focus on Forms Instruction

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moh. Rofid Fikroni
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Focus On Form ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Focus On Forms ◽  
Learning Language

Bearing in mind that the learners’ speaking skill had become the main goal in learning language, grammatical competence is believed to have a big role within foreign language learners’ language production, especially in spoken form. Moreover, the learners’ grammatical competence is also closely related to the Monitor Hypothesis proposed by Krashen (1982) in which it says that the acquired system will function as monitor or editor to the language production. The students’ monitor performance will vary based on how they make use of their acquired system. They may use it optimally (monitor optimal user), overly (monitor over-user), or they may not use it at all (monitor under-user). Therefore, learners’ grammatical competence has its own role, which is very crucial, within learners’ language production, which is not only to produce the language, but also to monitor the language production itself. Because of this reason, focus on form instruction will give a great impact for students’ grammatical competence within their communicative competence. This paper aims to present ideas about the how crucial the role grammatical competence within learners’ L2 communication.

scholarly journals Scientific Conferences as Way to Develop Students’ Foreign Language Communicative Competence

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01155
Author(s):  
Yuliya Savinova ◽  
Tatiana Akhmetzyanova ◽  
Svetlana Pozdnyakova ◽  
Ekaterina Dvorak ◽  
Zhanna Zarutskaya
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Student Engagement ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
High Level ◽  
Development Of Students

The issues of the student engagement in science-related activities and the development of students’ language communicative competence are especially relevant in a technical university, where due to the prevailing of the Sciences, the professional communicative competence has become increasingly vital. The goal of this article is to examine how interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages can foster the foreign language communicative competence of students. In the article, we present the definition and the three basic models of communicative competence. A method of pedagogical observation is used that represents comprehension and analysis of goal-oriented preparation of students for practical scientific conferences. We reveal the fact that interdisciplinary scientific conferences for students held in foreign languages allow educators to foster the foreign language communicative competence of students and deepen their knowledge in professional area, as well as to equip them with research skills since students’ participation in the conferences increases their attention and focus, motivates them to practice critical thinking skills of high level.

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