Three Pillars of Communicative Competence

• Authors: Tomasz Zygmunt

Abstracts

EN

The main point of view demonstrated in the present paper is to express criticism to those program of foreign language studies which still rely on the traditional approach to language education and favor the development of linguistic competence in students. Harmonious functioning of the contemporary world depends, to much extent, on human coexistence and communication both on the micro and macro scale. In the case of the macro scale contacts, the English language has been sanctioned an international means of communication. The examination of the Internet resources with reference to higher education language programs of studies as well as programs oered by some language schools, shows that the teaching/learning process is mainly concentrated on developing students' linguistic competence. The Polish reality of practical English application in a variety of situations shows that the language user's knowledge, when limited to the linguistic sphere only, is not sucient. Therefore, the aim of the present paper is to turn the reader's attention to the need of verication of educational policy, adopted by many higher education institutions, and expand the oered programs of studies by courses directing the teaching/learning process at the functional approach. Hence, the suggested in the present discussion approach would rely on giving priority to the development of communicative competence, instead of linguistic.

Keywords

EN

communicative competence; communication channel; language variable; comparative studies; discourse analysis; translation

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 87-100

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Tomasz Zygmunt

• Państwowa Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Chełmie: Instytut Neofilologii

• https://orcid.org/0000000280552053

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Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2022.1.87-100

Biblioteka Nauki

2137334