Developing Taiwanese Elementary School Pupils' EFL Communicative Competence through Communicative Language Activities

The purpose of the paper is to explore the application of communicative language activities in English lessons for developing Taiwanese elementary school pupils’ EFL communicative competence. The three objectives of the Grade 1-9 National Curriculum Guidelines constituted by the Ministry of Education in Taiwan for elementary school pupils learning English are ‘basic communication ability’, ‘interest in learning English’ and ‘understanding of both the native culture and the culture of the target language’. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) can satisfy these requirements to equip students to become efficient communicators who are able to use appropriate linguistic forms in various situations to communicate meanings for specific purposes. That is, task-based communicative activities, central to CLT, can create a context which exposes learners to the target language and involves them in communicating and participating actively for promoting communicative competence. Also, many game-like communicative activities are fun so that they can motivate learners’ interest in learning, and some language activities can inspire learners’ cultural awareness which facilitates foreign language learning more efficiently. It is expected that through applying communicative language activities in regular English lessons, Taiwanese EFL learners can be equipped with both linguistic competence and communicative competence to be communicatively competent language users.

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Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) ； communicative competence ； communicative activities ； EFL (English as a Foreign Language)

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