English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?

Communicative texts are educational materials for language learning that focus on the genuine use of a language for communicative purposes in a variety of meaningful contexts. Above and beyond the mere study of linguistic forms, these texts offer opportunities to communicate, interact and negotiate...

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Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
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Universidad de la Sabana
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Material didáctico
Enseñanza de idiomas
Desarrollo de las habilidades
Bilingüismo
Competencia comunicativa
Educational material
language teaching
development of skills
bilingualism
communicative competence
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dc.title.alternative.none.fl_str_mv Textos en inglés para el aprendizaje y la enseñanza del inglés como lengua extranjera: ¿realmente ayudan a desarrollar la competencia comunicativa?
Textos em inglês para a aprendizagem e o ensino de inglês como língua estrangeira: eles realmente ajudam a desenvolver habilidades de comunicação?
title English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
spellingShingle English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
Material didáctico
Enseñanza de idiomas
Desarrollo de las habilidades
Bilingüismo
Competencia comunicativa
Educational material
language teaching
development of skills
bilingualism
communicative competence
title_short English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
title_full English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
title_fullStr English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
title_full_unstemmed English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
title_sort English Textbooks for Teaching and Learning English as a Foreign Language: Do They Really Help to Develop Communicative Competence?
dc.creator.fl_str_mv Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
dc.contributor.author.none.fl_str_mv Gómez Rodríguez, Luis Fernando
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Material didáctico
Enseñanza de idiomas
Desarrollo de las habilidades
Bilingüismo
Competencia comunicativa
topic Material didáctico
Enseñanza de idiomas
Desarrollo de las habilidades
Bilingüismo
Competencia comunicativa
Educational material
language teaching
development of skills
bilingualism
communicative competence
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language teaching
development of skills
bilingualism
communicative competence
description Communicative texts are educational materials for language learning that focus on the genuine use of a language for communicative purposes in a variety of meaningful contexts. Above and beyond the mere study of linguistic forms, these texts offer opportunities to communicate, interact and negotiate meaning. Three common types of English language practice are analyzed in this article: mechanical practice, meaningful practice and communicative practice. Five English texts representative of those currently used in Colombia were selected to determine to what degree they include genuine communicative tasks and, in this respect, how they encourage the development of communicative competence. The extent of communicative practice these texts offer students of English was found to be less than the amount of mechanical and meaningful practice. This information should be useful for training English teachers, particularly those who generally focus their classroom activity on the use of texts. Methodological suggestions are offered, based on the results of the study.
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