scholarly journals Micro and Macro Content Analysis of English Textbook Entitled “Mosaic One Listening and Speaking (Student’s Book)” In The Light of Communicative Competence

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisreen Juma'a Hamed Al-Mashaqba
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Listening And Speaking

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which the listening and speaking lessons which are presented in textbook entitled “Mosaic One Listening and speaking (Student’s Book)” are characterized with appropriateness and meaningfulness in light of communicative competence and meet the Principles and features of communicative language teaching. The content analysis was at micro and macro level in terms of the availability of seven criteria of communicative competence in the textbook under the study and in terms of strength and weakness of the content. The findings indicate that The English textbook entitled “Mosaic One Listening and speaking (Student’s Book)” fulfilled 84% of communicative competence’s criteria of the good EFL textbook adapted from some experts in the light of communicative competence.

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 Teaching Speaking in the Nepalese Context: Problems and Ways of Overcoming them

1970 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bal Ram Adhikari
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Learner Centered ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Meaningful Interaction

Fluency-first approaches such as Communicative Language Teaching and Task-based Language Teaching aim at the development of communicative competence in students by engaging them in meaningful interaction. Ability to speak accurate, appropriate and effective English is vital for meaningful interaction that ensures students' communicative competence in English. Unfortunately, in the Nepalese context, especially in government-aided schools and constituent colleges of Tribhuvan University (TU), speaking skill lies on the periphery of English Language Teaching (ELT) owing to several factors. This article attempts to explore those factors that have been a hindrance in developing speaking skill in Nepalese students in general and the students from the above-mentioned institutions in particular. This article draws on the author's experience as a supervisor of student teachers from B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes and his teaching experience at a constituent campus of TU. Moreover, the article presents some suggestions that can help English teachers to overcome the hindrances.Key words: Speaking skill; Interaction; Teacher-fronted teaching; Learner-centered activitiesJournal of NELTA Vol. 15 No. 1-2 December 2010Page: 1-9Uploaded date: 3 May, 2011DOI: 10.3126/nelta.v15i1-2.4602

scholarly journals COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AS CONCEPTUALIZED BY BHUTANESE ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHERS

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Jigme Dorji
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Esl Teachers ◽  
English As Second Language

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the conceptualization of communicative language teaching (CLT) by the English as Second Language (ESL) teachers in Chukha district in Bhutan. Four ESL teachers were selected as the participants for the semi-structured interview through purposive sampling technique. A set of 15 predetermined open-ended questions on CLT were framed and asked based on Savignon�s (1983) Foreign Language Attitude Survey Test (FLAST). The content validity of interview questions was ensured by consulting three experts and computing Item Object Congruence (IOC) in accordance with Lynn�s (1986) item acceptability criteria. The data were analyzed using content analysis technique. The results revealed teachers� conceptualization under two categories; in compliance with and deviance from CLT principles. Under first category, the results showed that the participants believed CLT as a language teaching approach that focuses on developing communicative competence, teaching language for real life, child-centered teaching, and teaching culture in the second language classroom. Under the second category, the results indicated that the participants believed CLT as not using mother tongue in teaching English and only teaching listening and speaking skills. In addition, the study also uncovered the fact that ESL teachers are not aware of CLT approach. The article concludes with the discussion on the areas of training particularly relevant to this group of Bhutanese ESL teachers and recommendations for future studies. ��� �Keywords: communicative competence, communicative language teaching, conceptualization

scholarly journals TESTING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) THROUGH ENGLISH FOR TODAY (EFT) IN BANGLADESH: CHALLENGES FACED BY TERTIARY STUDENTS INITIALLY

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-27
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Medium Of Instruction ◽  
Main Principle ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Large Classrooms ◽  
Undergraduate Programs

The idea of using language as a tool of communication is the main principle of the communicative language teaching (CLT) approach. English for today (EFT) as a textbook was designed to develop the overall English language competence at a higher secondary level. This paper aims at justifying the suitability of EFT for implementing communicative language teaching in Bangladesh. This study shows English for today is not effective for creating communicative competence among its learners. Moreover, the tertiary students initially face challenges while enrolling in undergraduate programs under the medium of instruction is English. Data have been collected through classroom observation, interviews with teachers, students, and experts. Structured questionnaires for students, teachers, and experts have been used as tools for data collection. Finally, the paper concludes that revised abbreviations may be suitably adaptable to impose a communicative language teaching approach by overcoming the challenges in the large classrooms in Bangladesh.

scholarly journals AN INSTRUCTIONAL MODEL FOR ENHANCING EFL LEARNERS’ SPEAKING PROFICIENCY

EDULANGUE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-97
Author(s):  
Syarifudin Syarifudin
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Speaking Skill

Due to the central role of speaking skill and its escalating demands of instruction in various levels of education in Indonesia, a myriad of teaching approaches and strategies have been applied to equip learners with the competences enabling the development of this skill. As a widespread approach to English language teaching (ELT),  which  gains  its  popularity  within  the context  of  EFL, Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) is geared towards learners’ communicative competence comprising of grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence as the underlying abilities of speaking proficiency. The development of these competences can be better facilitated when learning takes its place both in and outside classrooms as the latter provides potential promises for learners’ speaking proficiency development. For this reason, this paper presents learners’ challenges for learning speaking, the model activities in and outside classrooms, the importance of speaking instruction and the components of communicative competence and speaking proficiency.

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.

CLT in Chines Major’s Comprehensive Chinese Course – A case study of Khon Kaen University, Thailand

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-178
Author(s):  
Watcharapon Sirisuwilai
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Listening Skill ◽  
Writing Skill ◽  
Khon Kaen ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Difference

Abstract Nowadays Chinese language is become one of the most important foreign language in Thailand reflexing by the growing popularity of the Chinese language. Traditional Chinese language teaching cause the lack of high communicative competence. Therefore, the study preliminarily attempt to combine the theory of Communicative Language Teaching with Comprehensive Chinese teaching so as to search for a feasible and effective instruction which conforms to the teaching features of comprehensive Chinese course in Khon Kaen University. After Pre-test and Post-test and compared by SPSS (T-Test sig (2-tailed) = 0.00<0.05), the result show that in Listening skill the difference is significant (sig. (2-tailed) = 0.01), Speaking skill the different is significant (sig. (2-tailed) = 0.00), Writing skill the different is significant (sig. (2-tailed) = 0.03), only Reading skill which the difference is no significant(sig. (2-tailed) = 0.324). As a result after a semester using Communicative Language Teaching method in comprehensive Chinese course for Chinese major student in Khon Kaen University, CLT effectively improve student Chinese language achievement and help them to improve their Chinese listening, speaking and writing skill. Moreover, this teaching method is highly recognized by students. This verified the important and necessity of communicative language teaching method to improve Chinese major student Chinese communicative competence.

scholarly journals Implementing Task-Based Language Teaching to Integrate Language Skills in an EFL Program at a Colombian University

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eulices Córdoba Zúñiga
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
Public University ◽  
Language Program ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Qualitative Research Study ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Listening And Speaking

<p>This article reports the findings of a qualitative research study conducted with six first semester students of an English as a foreign language program in a public university in Colombia. The aim of the study was to implement task-based language teaching as a way to integrate language skills and help learners to improve their communicative competence in English. The results suggest that the implementation of task-based language teaching facilitated the integration of the four skills in the English as a foreign language context. Furthermore, tasks were meaningful and integrated different reading, writing, listening, and speaking exercises that enhanced students’ communicative competences and interaction. It can be concluded that task-based language teaching is a good approach to be used in the promotion of skills integration and language competences.</p>

scholarly journals From Communicative Competence to Language Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cagri Tugrul Mart
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Knowledge Of Language ◽  
Competence Models

Communicative competence is a term which alludes to tacit knowledge of language and the ability to understand and use the language effectively for communication purposes. Simply put, it refers to the ability of forming correct utterances and using them appropriately. This paper looks briefly at the concept of communicative competence and how it is acquired. The second issue that the paper raises is the components of different communicative competence models which are seen as central to further language development. Finally, the paper summarizes the essence and core tenets of communicative language teaching. 

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