Improving Communicative Competence through Social Interaction: A Service-Learning Methodology

Improving Communicative Competence through Synchronous Communication in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments: A Systematic Review

Computer-supported collaborative learning facilitates the extension of second language acquisition into social practice. Studies on its achievement effects speak directly to the pedagogical notion of treating communicative practice in synchronous computer-mediated communication (SCMC): real-time communication that takes place between human beings via the instrumentality of computers in forms of...

Improving social competence through character education.

Character education is supposed to meet early adolescents' need (i.e., eighth and ninth graders) for strengthening social competence. Moreover, adolescents' engagement in character education is integral to their learning from the education. The engagement and deficit in social competence are therefore plausible conditions for the effectiveness of character education in promoting social competen...

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

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...

Quality of Service and Communicative Competence in NLG Evaluation

The paper discusses quality of service evaluation which emphasises the user’s experience in the evaluation of system functionality and efficiency. For NLG systems, an important quality feature is communicatively adequate language generation, which affects the users’ perception of the system and consequently, evaluation results. The paper drafts an evaluation task that aims at measuring quality ...