Communicative Competences

Patesan, Marioara; Zechia, Dana; Balagiu, Alina

doi:10.1515/kbo-2015-0106

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“…We talk about writing, speaking, listening, and reading, as mass communication. As a receiver or sender, both need to perceive a clear message to get an effective communication, as Patesan, Zechia, and Balagiu (2015) mentions that there must be a correlation between what the sender thinks and what the receiver thinks to get an effective communication. Thus, in the process of acquiring a second language creates the need to strengthen communicative competencies, so it is vital that the L2 learners have excellent communication skills and adequate language development to express their own ideas meaningfully while using the foreign language.…”

Section: Communicative Competencementioning

confidence: 99%

Causes of Low Communicative Competences in English as a Foreign Language: Considerations and Reflections

Garzón León,

Martínez Parra,

Barreto Pinzón

et al. 2024

Ciencia Latina

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Mastering English as a lingua franca has become a first-rate skill for new professionals in most jobs around the world. According to the bilingualism policies in Colombia it is expected that students from higher education achieve a level of English between B1 or B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL), with students from bachelor degree programs in foreign languages, the level must be C1, in this sense the Ministry of Education has implemented projects and strategies to get a bilingual professional with high communicative competences, according to the demands of the globalized world. However, most students show low levels of communicative proficiency in English according to the results of the test applied by ICFES. Despite the demands of learning English, weaknesses persist in the mastery of communicative competences. A constant concern is to investigate some causes of low communication skills in this language. This article presents the results of some research conducted in various countries around the world that has attempted to investigate these causes. The causes, according to the results of the research, have to do with social and cultural aspects, but more importantly, teacher performance is one of the most frequent causes. This requires special attention to start programs and projects aimed at training teachers in didactic competencies.

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Section: Communicative Competencementioning

confidence: 99%