Teaching intercultural communicative competence through the four skills

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ID11396248
AuthorsEsther Usó Juan, Esther Usó-Juan (0000-0003-4030-8926, Universitat Jaume I, corresponding author), Alicia Martínez‐Flor (0000-0001-8510-6872, Universitat Jaume I), Alicia Martínez Flor
Year2008
Issue21
Pages157
Publication date2008-11-15
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0214-4808 • E-ISSN: 2171-861X
PublisherUniversidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14198/raei.2008.21.09
OpenAlexW1484346639
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited6

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

Communicative competence · Communicative language teaching · Competence (human resources · Conceptualization · Foreign language · Intercultural communication · Language education · Linguistics · Macro · Pedagogy · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Social Psychology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies · Artificial Intelligence

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