“Communicative Competence and Communicative Language Teaching”
In this article the author Atsako Ohno basically explains the theories of others in the field of communication. Competence in how the language is used, when it is used and the different forms depending on the person or place. I will try to explain with an example the theory of communicative competence according to Hymes from what the article states. Riding a bike, if you do not know how to ride a bike you will find information and understand the rules and what is needed before riding, then you go and ride the bike but if you are in your neighborhood you will probably ride without a helmet or any type of protection, meanwhile if you are going to ride in the street, you will use the helmet and the protection needed, you will know the correct use of the bike according to location.
On communicative language teaching, what I understood was that according to Widdowson you can explain the rules but if you do not show them in use, what is the point. A student needs to see the rules in function. According to Canale and Swain there are three points in language; the grammatical, sociolinguistic and the strategic. Where you know the rules, you use them and you defend yourself with verbal or non-verbal expression to get by. Then according to Stern, his language curriculum, I believe is what we use in the classroom to teach our students, structural, functional and sociocultural. Finally according to Rivers, she believes in “skill-getting” and “skill-using” where the student repeats or copies the teacher in “skill-getting” in “skill-using” the student most some how communicate using what ever is available like gestures or visual aids if she/he do not know the correct words to use.
The author believes that both communicative competence and language teaching still needs to be studied further, but the information that we now have helps teachers as well as the students improve on their target; learning a new language.
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