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Post by nancy27c on Oct 19, 2014 15:23:29 GMT -5
Which one of the 4 components of CC do you believe is the most important? Why? List the components, as you see them, from most important to least in SLA and why you believe this for your future classroom.
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Post by kristine14 on Oct 22, 2014 16:58:27 GMT -5
The four components of Communicative Competence are grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence. I feel that the most important component is strategic competence because it includes the verbal and nonverbal communication strategies. Being an adult ESL teacher, I feel that this is what my students need. I try to focus on how to communicate verbally and nonverbally with others. They need to know about social cues, gestures, and social etiquette. Although I still teach grammatical rules and discourse, they need to learn "survival" language. This may vary depending on the age of your students and the purpose or goal of your teaching.
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Post by Maria on Oct 23, 2014 14:09:54 GMT -5
I believe strategic competence is the most important because it's the verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that are used to enhance effectiveness and compensate for imperfect knowledge of rules. It's the way we manipulate language in order to meet communicative goals. My students would be encouraged to first use language for their basic needs and develop it from there. I'd put sociolinguistic competence next because knowledge of the socioculture rules of a particular language is important. Students must learn the roles of interaction within the social context. Grammatical and discourse competence are the least relevant right away because you can't learn a second language simply from the rules. Over time i'd teach students morphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics, and phonology. They'd be able to then connect all of these things to form a meaningful whole.
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Post by nancy27c on Oct 23, 2014 15:22:06 GMT -5
@maria
I agree with you that strategic and socialinguistic are the most important to get our ESL students communicating and the other 2 are the same thing we teach to students with English as a first language.
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Post by nstashenko on Oct 25, 2014 17:52:41 GMT -5
I believe that all of the communicative competences are important, especially when learning a second language. The grammatical competence, discourse competence, sociological competence, strategic competence, organization competence and illocutionary competence. For me being a second language learner I find the strategic competence to be the most effective for me because its "verbal and non verbal communication strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdowns in communication due to performance variables or due to insufficient competence." (pg. 220) I believe this is an effective strategy to be used in a classroom with ELL's because they might not always verbally understand what you say but with strategic competence it uses non verbal communication also like maybe gestures or picture cues to help ELL students comprehend what you say and then be able to communicate it after.
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Post by ayteama on Oct 29, 2014 18:46:02 GMT -5
-The four components of Communicative Competence are:
1. Strategic Competence.
2. Sociolinguistic Competence.
3. Discourse Competence.
4. Grammatical Competence.
I do believe that the strategic competence is the most important because it is the competence underlying our ability to make repairs, to cope with imperfect knowledge, and to sustain communication through paraphrase, circumlocution,repetition,hesitation,avoidance and guessing, as well as shifts in register and style and this is the core of a language.
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