How to develop communicative competence with our students

English teaching practicum activity 2.3

1. HOWTO DEVELOP
COMMUNICATIVECOMPETENCE
WITHOURSTUDENTS?
Preparedby: Maicol Suntasig
Subject: English teachingpracticum

2. DEFINING COMMUNICATIVE
COMPETENCE
Currentdefinition
Grammatical
Knowledgeof lexical
items
Discourse
Abilityto connect
sentences
Sociolinguistics
Undesrtandthesocial
contextwherethe
languageisused
Strategiccompetence
Verbal ornonverbal
strategiesto
communicate
Fourcomponents

3. LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS
Instrumental
•Manipulatetheenvironment. Ex: Thisisthestove
Regulatory
•Control of events, approval, behaviorcontrol, etc.
Representational
•Makestatements. E: thesunishot.
Interactional
•Ensuresocial maintanance. Ex: jokes, slang, folklore, etc.
Personal
•Express feelings
Heuristic
•To acquireknowledge
Imaginative
•Createimaginarysystems

4. FUNCTIONAL SYLLABUSES
Introducingselfand otherpeople
Exchangingpersonal information
Askinghowto spellsomeone´sname
Givingcommands
Apologizingand thanking
Identifyingand describingpeople
Askingforinformation

5. DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Analysisof therelationshipbetweenformsand functionsof language
Weuse languagein stretchesof discourse
Productionand comprehensionof languageare factor of ourabilityto perceive
Withoutthepragmaticcontextsof discourse
Ourcommunicationwouldbe extraordinaryambiguous.
TeachingReading: cohesionand coherenceare commonterms

6. Conversation Analysis
Attentiongetting
Topicnomination
Topic
development
Turn-taking
Clarification,
shifting,
avoidance, and
interruption
Topictermination

7. PRAGMATICS
◦Languagecomprehensionand productionmaybe looselythoughtof as theeffectof context
onstringsof linguisticsevents.
◦SecondLanguageAcquisitionbecomesa difficulttaskwhenpragmalinguisticor
sociopragmaticconstraintsare broughtto bear

8. Language and Gender
Forma significant, intricatelyinterwoven
in oursociopragmaticcompetence
Sexistlanguage
Womenuse
languagethat
expressesmore
tan men
Pragmatic
factorsof
language
acquisition

9. STYLES AND REGISTERS
Levels of formality
Oratical
Deliberative
Consultative
Casual
Intimate

10. NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
◦Interactivelanguagefunctionsin which
social contactisof keyimportance
◦Isnotwhatyousaybuthowyousayit
◦Itissubconsciousin a nativespeaker that
verbal languageseems.
◦Theexpressionsof culture isso boundup
in nonverbalcommunicationthatthe
barriersto culture learningare more
nonverbaltan verbal.

11. Kinesics
Agreement, “yes”
“No!”
“Come here”
Lackof interest, “I don´tknow”
Flirtingsignals, sexual signals
Insults, obscenegestures

12. Eye Contact
◦Itdependsontheculture
◦American culture, forexample, lackof eycontactcouldrepresentlackof attention

13. Proxemics
Physical
proximity
Distancesfor
conversation
Personal
space
Violatedifa stranger
stand closer
Objects
Serveto mantain
distances

14. Kinesthetics

15. Olfactory Dimensions
Nosesreceivesensory
nonverbalmessages
Animal kigdom
Be awareof the
acceptedmores of
othercultures in the
olfactorymodality