Teaching Functional Language and Communicative Competence Through Listening and Speaking in The Algerian EFL textbook Getting Through
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Date
2016-06
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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
The current study deals with the teaching of functional language and communicative
competence through listening and speaking activities in the Algerian EFL textbook “Getting
Through” which is designed under the Competency Based Approach. The study investigates
whether listening and speaking activities in “Getting Through” target the teaching of
functional language and communicative competence or not. Moreover, it investigates whether
these activities help EFL learners to be functionally and communicatively competent or not.
In order to reach this objective, an examination of the listening and speaking activities which
are provided in “Getting Through” have been done. This analysis has been guided by a
framework which consists of the principles of teaching language to execute functions and to
be communicatively competent. The checklist is adopted from Nunan (1989) and from Lou-
Leaver & Willis (2004). For the sake of gathering more data, interviews with eight teachers
of three Secondary School in Tizi-Ouzou have been conducted. The findings have been
converted into numerical data, and then have been interpreted using content analysis. The
results of both the textbook analysis and the teachers’ interviews show that despite some
shortcomings, the listening and speaking activities target the principles of teaching functional
language and communicative competence. Hence, the L/S activities help EFL
learnerslikelihood to be functionally and communicatively competent in real life situations.
Description
85p.:ill;30cm.(+cd)
Keywords
Competency Based Approach, Communicative Competence, English as a foreign language, Functions, Functional Language, listening and speaking activities.
Citation
Linguistique appliquée et Sémiotique Sociale.