Strategic and Social Competences in the Foreign Language Class

Negoescu, Alina Gabriela; Boştină-Bratu, Simona; Morar, Lucia-Larissa

doi:10.2478/bsaft-2019-0007

Abstract

Nowadays, teaching grammar and lexis to students is undoubtedly necessary but not enough. The new approaches to language teaching place a great emphasis on developing learners’ communicative competency. Besides the professional skills, essential to a successful career, individuals also need to acquire the communicative competency, which is equally important as it includes various other competencies, such as: linguistic, social, socio-cultural, or strategic competences in order to communicate and interact with each other. Our paper aims at discussing the different ways and methods teachers can use in the language classroom to build and enhance students’ social and strategic competencies.

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