Abstract

SALAZAR OBESO, Wilmar. Exploring Communicative Competence Development in an EFLT Classroom at Cursos Libres. Zona prox. [online]. 2015, n.23, pp.88-103. ISSN 2145-9444.  https://doi.org/10.14482/zp.22.5832.

The present article is intended to report on a study carried out with students of level three at Cursos Libres. The research focused mainly on describing how the materials and the methodology implemented by the teacher contributed to the development of the students’ Communicative Competence. To reach that research objective, an ethnographic case study design was used. Observations, interviews to students and teacher were employed as data collection instruments. The results are expected to contribute to the issue of the development of Communicative Competence in classroom contexts.

Keywords : communicative competence; communicative language teaching; interaction; materials evaluation; tasks; teacher’s mediation.

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