Communicative Competence of the Fourth Year Students: Basis for Proposed English Language Program

Autor/in	Tuan, Vu Van
Titel	Communicative Competence of the Fourth Year Students: Basis for Proposed English Language Program
Quelle	In: English Language Teaching, 10 (2017) 7, S.104-122 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1916-4742
Schlagwörter	Communicative Competence (Languages); College Seniors; Program Proposals; Correlation; Comparative Analysis; Student Surveys; Student Attitudes; Linguistic Competence; Profiles; Specialization; Gender Differences; Educational Attainment; Parent Background; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; College Second Language Programs; Discourse Modes; Remedial Programs; Questionnaires; Word Frequency; Foreign Countries; Statistical Analysis; Vietnam + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Communicative competence; Languages; Kommunikative Kompetenz; Sprache; College; Colleges; Senior; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Korrelation; Schülerbefragung; Schülerverhalten; Sprachkompetenz; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Elternhaus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Diskursethik; Förderprogramm; Fragebogen; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Ausland; Statistische Analyse
Abstract	This study on level of communicative competence covering linguistic/grammatical and discourse has aimed at constructing a proposed English language program for 5 key universities in Vietnam. The descriptive method utilized was scientifically employed with comparative techniques and correlational analysis. The researcher treated the surveyed data through frequency counts, means and percentage computations, and analysis of variance/t-test to compare two main area variables. The respondents was 221 students from 5 universities randomly chosen. The major findings of the study generally reveal that the students' level of communicative competence is a factor of their parents' academic influence. Their linguistic/grammatical and discourse competence is helped by their chance for formal and intensive learning, conversing with a native speaker of the English language, rich exposure to social media networks, and reading materials written in English. Moreover, the students' greatest strength along linguistic competence is on the use and function of noun, pronoun and preposition, while their weaknesses are on the use and function of conjunction, adverb, interjection, and verb. It is a general finding that the 4th year students who are linguistically competent on the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general (consisting of syntax, morphology, inflections, phonology and semantics) have the tendency to speak or write authoritatively about a topic or to engage in conversation. Basing on the findings from this study, an enhancement program was proposed with the certainty that this proposed English language program would bring the best efficiency in the second language acquisition. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01