Strategic Competence in a Three-Pronged Approach to Communication
Author Affiliations
- 1Mahatma Gandhi Institute Of Technology, Gandipet Main Road, Gandipet, near CBIT Telangana, Hyderabad-500075, INDIA
Int. Res. J. Social Sci., Volume 4, Issue (4), Pages 70-73, April,14 (2015)
Abstract
Most students in English Language courses in professional colleges can perform well on tests of comprehension and grammatical knowledge. However they fall short in their ability to communicate effectively and interact meaningfully in real life situations. Effective communication can be seen as a multipronged fork. This paper aims to describe and draw attention to the importance of those skills of communication such as strategic competence,sociolinguistic competence and discourse competence. Second language learners face difficulties in expressingthemselves due to limited language knowledge. This problem can to a considerable extent be remedied by improving their strategic competence. Strategic competence is very necessary in communication as it will help learners remain in real-life conversations which in turn increases their confidence. The paper concludes by presenting sample exercises used by the researcher in classroom to enable teachers increase students’development of strategic competence.
References
- Hymes D., Models of the interaction of language and social life. In J. Gumperz and D. Hymes (Eds.),Directions in sociolinguistics: The ethnography of communication (35-71). New York: Holt, Rhinehart and Winston. (1972)
- Canale M., Swain M., Theoretical bases of communicative approaches to second language teaching and testing, Applied Linguistics, (1), 1–47 (1980) Retrieved September 29, 2013
- Paribakht Tahereh, Strategic Competence and Language Proficiency, Applied Linguistics, 6(2), 132-146 (1985)
- O'Malley J.M., The effects of training in the use of learning strategies on acquiring English as a second language. In A. Wenden and J. Rubin (Eds.), Learner strategies in language learning (133-144). Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall International (1987)
- Nakatani Yasuo, The Effects of Awareness-Raising Training on Oral Communication Strategy UseThe Modern Language Journal, 89(1), 76–91, (2005)
- Tarone E., Yule, G. Focus on the Language Learner. Oxford: University Press, (1989)
- Faerch F. and Kasper G., Plans and Strategies in Foreign Language Communication in Faerch, F., Kasper, G. Strategies in Interlanguage Communication. Harlow: Longman, 20-60 (1983)
- Corder S.P., Error Analysis and Interlanguage, London: Oxford University Press (1981)
- Ellis, Rod, Understanding second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1985)
- Sirigiri B. Meenakshi, Cross Linguistic Influences in the Writing of Preliterate Low-proficiency Learners, International Research Journal of Social Sciences,3(10), 1-5, (2014)
