SANHUEZA JARA, María Gabriela    BURDILES FERNANDEZ, Gina América. A diagnosis of the English communicative competence of a group of Chilean students: - Some common issues with their strategic profile. []. , 36, pp.97-113. ISSN 0123-4870.

Abstract Recently, the Chilean Ministry of Education has applied for the first time, an assessment of the receptive skills in the English language of every Chilean third year high school student. This diagnosis evinced that in the areas of listening and reading comprehension, the students'level was unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, what has been investigated with respect to the Chilean school students'level of communicative competence in English has been very little. The present investigation seeks to establish some common issues between the description of the communicative competence of the Chilean students and their typical, foreign language learning strategic profile. This unique case study is one that is descriptive and transversal. Analyzed data was gathered from the First Certificate in English examination reports and a strategic learning profile of English as a foreign language which was obtained from the questionnaire Strategy Inventory for Language Learning.

: English language learning; communicative competence; foreign language learning strategies.

        · |     · |     · ( pdf )