Policies that Teachers Follow to Improve Communicative Competence of their Students at the Near East College and English Preparatory School of Near East University

Pages:26-28
Montgomery Howwar (Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)

When discussing either the communicative competence or the linguistic competence, views of two writers should be taken into consideration; Chomsky and Hymes’. The former adopted the linguistic theory arguing that it is primarily concerned with the ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community while the latter approached the elements of language from socio-cultural point of view. There is a continual debate around communicative and linguistic competences and it seems that the communicative competence has become superior to the linguistic one since Hymes and his followers’ opposition to Chomsky’s linguistic competence. This opposition has been adopted by those who seek new directions towards a communicative era. Those who adopted Hymes’ new effect like (Munby 1978, p. 1), for example, in his development of “Communicative syllabus design” refers to Hymes` effect both on his work and the foreign and second language teaching field as “ The upsurge of interest in the content of the language syllabus, following the concern with communicative competence generated by Dell Hymes, reflects inter alia a feeling that we ought to know much more about what should be taught and learned if a non native person is to be communicatively competent in English”. Furthermore, as a means of achieving the communicative goal of a language, teachers focus on fluency and ignore the accuracy.