AW_The Importance of Communicative Competence.pdf

The potential of the direct and explicit approach to teaching communicative skills is still necessary in EFL classrooms.

1. Communicative Competence
( Based on Celce-Murcia et al.)

2. Why do we need a CC model?
Celce-Murcia et al.’s effort has been motivated
by the belief in the potential in the direct,
explicit approach to the teaching of
communicative skills, which would require a
detailed description of what CC entailsin order
to use the sub-components as a content base in
syllabus design.

3. Competence
Discourse
Competence
Linguistic Comp..
Actional Comp.
Socio –
cultural Comp.
Strategic
Competence

4. What does CC entail?
•Discourse Competence
•Linguistic Competence
•Actional Competence
•Socio-cultural Competence
•Strategic Competence

5. Discourse Competence
Discourse competence concerns the selection,
sequencing, and arrangement of words,
structures, sentences and utterance to achieve a
unified spoken or written text.

6. Components of Discourse Competence
•COHESION
Reference, Substutition, Conjuction, Lexical Chains
•DEIXES
Personal pronouns, Spatial, Temporal, Textual
•COHERENCE
Thematization, Management of old and new information
•GENRE/GENERIC STRUCTURE
Narrative, Report, service encounter, etc.
•CONVERSATIONAL STRUCTURE
How to perform opening, hold the floor, adjacency
pairs, etc.

7. What do we develop?
•The ability to participate in discourse, or
•The ability to communicate, or
•The ability to create spoken and written texts, or
•The ability to negotiate meanings, or
•The abilityto exchange nuances of meanings

8. Linguistic Competence
•Syntax
•Morphology
•Lexicon
•Phonology
•Orthography

9. Actional Competence
•Interpersonal Exchange
•Information
•Opinions
•Feelings
•Suasion
•Problems
•Future Scenario

10. Socio-cultural Competence
•Social Contextual Factors
•Stylistic Appropriateness Factors
•Cultural Factors
•Non-Verbal Communicative Factors

11. Strategic Competence
•Avoidance or Reduction Strategies
•Achievement or Compensatory Strategies
•Stalling or Time-Gaining Strategies
•Self-Monitoring Strategies
•Interactional Strategies

12. What is Communicative Competence (CC)?
Based on Michael Canaleand Merrill Swain (1980)
CC refers to the ability to communicate effectively in
the target language

13. What does CC consist of?
Based on Michael Canaleand Merrill Swain (1980)
1)Grammatical competence: a learner’s ability to use
the lexical items, as well as the rules constraining
morphology, sentence structure, and the sound
system.
2)Sociolinguistic competence: a learner’s ability to
interpret an utterance for its intended social meaning.
3)Strategic competence:the ways that learners
compensate when there are breakdowns in
communication.