Foreign language teachinglearning 2001

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English Teaching Methodology A, 2002

• Session 3

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Agenda for May 1

• Ice-breaking games
• Have you remembered names?
• Communicative competence
• ESL/EFL/ITL
• History of teaching English in Japan

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What is communicative competence?
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What created (coined) the term communicative
competence?

• Hymes (1967, 1972)
• Socio-linguistics
• Professor William Reis of DWC

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What were the problems with Chomskys (1965) term
rule-governed creativity?

• Chomsky
• competence abstract and vague
• performance actual language activity
• Intra-personal issue
• Hymes
• Inter-personal issue
• dynamic
• negotiation of meaning (Savignon, 1983)

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According to Canale and Swain (1980), how many
dimensions exist in communicative competence?

• The reference point Applied Linguistics Vol. 1.

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What is the grammatical competence?

• Vocabulary
• Phonology
• Semantics
• Morphology
• -ed, -ing
• Syntax
• present pregressive

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What is the discourse competence?

• Related to connecting sentences
• Coherence linking the meaning of utterances
• A Could you give me a lift home?
• B Sorry. Im visiting my sister.
• Cohesion grammatical or lexical relationship
• A Is Takeshi coming to the party?
• B Yes, he is.
• Context information
• It is hot here.

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What is the sociolinguisitic competence?

• Socio-cultural rules of language
• Politeness
• Could you tell me the way to the Sta.?
• Study hard.
• You should study hard.
• You must study hard.
• You had better study hard.

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What is the strategic competence?

• Compensatory strategies
• Getting help
• Switching to L1
• Communication strategies
• Guessing
• Using gestures
• An ability to select an effective means of
  performing a communicative act (Yule Tarone,
  1990)