Publication Date
1983
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
First Advisor
Bonnie Mennell
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to explore some feasible ways in which communicative competence can be taught at the Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute in Beijing, China. In the first part of the paper, a portrait of the institute's intensive language program, including its philosophy, a brief history and a description of the students, is provided so that the readers will have some idea why the paper is focused on communicative competence. Language is then described as a communication process involving linguistic, interactional and variational competence. The main part of this paper focuses on some innovative techniques by which communicative competence can be taught. A set of roleplays that includes situations which Chinese scholars may encounter when studying in the U.S.is presented. Finally, three possible ways to assess students' communicative competence are discussed.
Disciplines
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education | Curriculum and Instruction | Education | Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research | Educational Methods
Recommended Citation
Lingjun, Wang, "Teaching Communicative Competence to Adult Learners: An Intensive Foreign Language Program in China" (1983). MA TESOL Collection. 564.
https://digitalcollections.sit.edu/ipp_collection/564
Included in
Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Educational Methods Commons