Integrated content of future owners 'communicative competence

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

Communicative Competence1 Communicative Competence: A Comparison of Two Approaches

This article is a comparison of the Natural Approach and Communicative Language Teaching. Using the Richards and Rodgers’ model for conceptualizing approaches and methods described in Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching, 1986, Cambridge University Press, I compare and contrast these two approaches carefully at the level of approach, design and procedure. At the level of approach, I look...

Peer-related Communicative Competence of Preschool

The peer-related communicative interactions of nonhandicapped 3and 4-year-old children as well as a group of 4-year-old mildly developmentally delayed children were investigated in a cross-sectional descriptive study. Adjustments of speakers to companions varying in terms of chronological age and developmental status were of interest, as were comparisons among the three groups. All three groups...

Integrated Communicative Robot “BUGNOID”

A communicative robot “BUGNOID” that integrates various sensory data and behavior modules is introduced with some experimental results. For the achievement of flexible communication with humans, the robot has multimodal interface holding diverse channels of communication. Moreover, the robot can recognize the environment taking a human’s behavior into account in order to co-exist with them.

Communicative Competence in Technical Oral Presentation: That “Magic“ Perceived by ESL Educators versus Content Experts

Till date, English as a Second Language (ESL) educators involved in teaching language and communication to engineering students face an uphill task in developing graduate communicative competency. This challenge is accentuated by the apparent lack of English for Specific Purposes (ESP) materials for engineering students in the engineering curriculum. As such, most ESL educators are forced to pl...