Developing communicative competence: a qualitative study on teachers approaches in language teaching

Abstract

Communicative Competence is a ―slippery term coined by Shona Whyte in a language dissertation entitled ―Revisiting Communicative Competence in the Teaching and Assessment for Specific Purpose‖. It is a slippery term for Whyte (2019) due to many scholars and educators of the L2 has been interpreting the method in various ways that makes sense for the reason that these terms were born from multiple assessment and uses of language education. All throughout the formal and informal form teaching of linguistics, it is thereby considered that Communicative Competence is one of the magnifying method to the outstanding learning of language students. Many scholars, teachers, and L2 researchers took Dell Hyme‘s application of constructing language learning through communicative competence which others have dominantly modified, advanced, and adapted to grasp the practical concerns in language teaching and testing. This research paper seeks to scrutinize the role of communicative competence in the field of language teaching and learning. Moreover, considering the capability of the learners is one of the factors that either motivates or fails the use of communicative competence inside the classroom. As a team, we carefully have chosen this method in language teaching because of its versatility, enabling the language learning and language acquisition corporate for the meaningful learning of the students which is worth reflecting for the facilitators. At the end of this language research, we concluded that communicative competence sharpens and hyphens the teacher and students or connects both of the participants in a more meaningful learning of the English language. In primary and secondary education, language method deems to uncover essential background from the learners to tap their need of understanding, of sympathy when it comes to learning the foreign language. Which shows that teachers are more creative and empathetic to their learners in teaching. While in higher education, a teaching method is used to transform, to build a principle or discipline to the learners that enables them not to be adamant to the foreign language yet open their souls to learning the language efficiently.