HOW TO DEVELOPCOMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

WITH OUR STUDENTS?Prepared by: Maicol Suntasig

Subject: English teaching practicum

DEFINING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

Current definition

Grammatical

Knowledge of lexical items

Discourse

Ability to connectsentences

Sociolinguistics

Undesrtand the social context where thelanguage is used

Strategic competence

Verbal or nonverbalstrategies to

communicate

Four components

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONSInstrumental

•Manipulate the environment. Ex: This is the stove

Regulatory

•Control of events, approval, behavior control, etc.

Representational

•Make statements. E: the sun is hot.

Interactional

•Ensure social maintanance. Ex: jokes, slang, folklore, etc.

Personal

•Express feelings

Heuristic

•To acquire knowledge

Imaginative

•Create imaginary systems

FUNCTIONAL SYLLABUSES

Introducing self and other people

Exchanging personal information

Asking how to spell someone´s name

Giving commands

Apologizing and thanking

Identifying and describing people

Asking for information

DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Analysis of the relationship between forms and functions of language

We use language in stretches of discourse

Production and comprehension of language are factor of our ability to perceive

Without the pragmatic contexts of discourse

Our communication would be extraordinary ambiguous.

Teaching Reading: cohesion and coherence are common terms

Conversation Analysis

Attention getting

Topic nomination

Topic

development

Turn-taking

Clarification,

shifting,

avoidance, and

interruption

Topic termination

PRAGMATICS

◦ Language comprehension and production may be loosely thought of as the effect of contexton strings of linguistics events.

◦ Second Language Acquisition becomes a difficult task when pragmalinguistic orsociopragmatic constraints are brought to bear

Language and Gender

Form a significant, intricately interwoven

in our sociopragmatic competence

Sexist language

Women use

language that

expresses more

tan men

Pragmatic

factors of

language

acquisition

STYLES AND REGISTERSLevels of formality

Oratical

Deliberative

Consultative

Casual

Intimate

NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

◦ Interactive language functions in whichsocial contact is of key importance

◦ Is not what you say but how you say it

◦ It is subconscious in a native speaker thatverbal language seems.

◦ The expressions of culture is so bound up in nonverbal communication that thebarriers to culture learning are more nonverbal tan verbal.

Kinesics

Agreement, “yes”

“No!”

“Come here”

Lack of interest, “I don´t know”

Flirting signals, sexual signals

Insults, obscene gestures

Eye Contact

◦ It depends on the culture

◦ American culture, for example, lack of ey contact could represent lack of attention

Proxemics

Physicalproximity

Distances forconversation

Personal space

Violated if a strangerstand closer

ObjectsServe to mantain

distances

Kinesthetics

Olfactory Dimensions

Noses receive sensory

nonverbal messagesAnimal kigdom

Be aware of the

accepted mores of

other cultures in the

olfactory modality