On Competence-Based Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

• Authors: Csaba Czeglédi
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper discusses some elementary concepts and issues in competence based education (CBE) in general and in a competence-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language in particular. It is shown how some basic assumptions and concepts apparently widely adopted in CBE and language pedagogy are confusing, misguided, and incoherent and how some of the incoherence and inconsistencies may be resolved.

Keywords

EN

competence; skill; knowledge; communicative language teaching; competence-based education

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 91-100

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Csaba Czeglédi

• Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Matej Bel University, Banska Bystrica

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0010-2