Fostering Communicative Competence and Motivation through ComunicARTE Program

Development of Communicative Competence 1 Running head: DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Development of Communicative Competence Through Private and Inner Speech

Fostering Intercultural Communicative Competence Through Reading Authentic Literary Texts in an Advanced Colombian EFL Classroom: A Constructivist Perspective

This article describes an action research experience carried out in an advanced English as a foreign language classroom of the language program at a university in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2010. The study proposes the inclusion of authentic literary texts in the English as a foreign language classroom through the implementation of four constructivist approaches as a means to develop intercul-tural c...

Fostering Students’ Clinical Competence through Objective Structured Clinical Assessment (OSCA)

An Objective Structured Clinical Assessment (OSCA) method was adopted by a course team in an attempt to resolve some of the learning difficulties experienced by the baccalaureate nursing students in clinical practice. The assessment required the students to work through some simulations developed from real encounters. The performance of the students was evaluated against the checklists which we...

Developing Learners' Second Language Communicative Competence through Active Learning: Clickers or Communicative Approach?

The purpose of this study was to compare the impact of clickers, the communicative approach and the lecture method on the communicative competence development of learners who were taught English a second language (ESL). Ninety nine pupils from three primary schools participated in the study. Quasi-experimental nonrandomised pre-test posttest control group design was adopted for the study. A bat...

Fostering motivation and creativity for computer users

Creativity might be viewed as any process which results in a novel and useful product. People use computers for creative tasks; they flesh out ideas for text, graphics, engineering solutions, etc. Computer programming is an especially creative activity, but few tools for programming aid creativity. Most computers are used in solitude; however, people depend on social supports for creativity. A ...