Communication as the Center of Teaching/Learning Process of Foreign Languages (the Case of French Language)

Leonarda Myslihaka

doi:10.26417/948onc27s

Abstract

Knowing at least one foreign language has become almost a necessity. However, in learning a foreign language, communication definitely plays a crucial role. Moreover, without communication there is no interaction, language teaching or learning. Communication is considered as very important and more and more is used as a useful tool to organize a pupil – centered lesson. In this article is treated the need to strengthen and highlight the communicative aspects in teaching foreign language, in our case French language, for a better learning of the language. The objective of learning a foreign language is to develop at pupils the communicative competences in this language. More and more we are going towards a method where communication is the one that realizes successfully the process of teaching and learning. The hypothesis that is set in the article is: Is communication the core element in teaching and learning a foreign language? Other research questions and cases that will be treated are: Communication methods of the foreign languages. What communicative skills are required to develop at pupils/students who learn a foreign language and the strategies of their lessons?; Linguistic competences and their communication role; Communication and the importance of interaction; Oral communication in teaching / learning French language, in the French and Italian language department, in “Aleksandër Xhuvani” university, Elbasan.

Highlights

Everyone, living in a society, tries to learn how to communicate in a foreign language, using different techniques and methods to achieve this goal
The most used method nowadays is the communicative teaching method, which is considered to be more of an achievement than a real method. As a method it emphasizes the interaction among students and it is called “communicative achievements in a foreign language”
All communicative teaching methods used today in Albania focus in the communicative acts and the connection with lingual functions

Summary

Introduction

Everyone, living in a society, tries to learn how to communicate in a foreign language, using different techniques and methods to achieve this goal. It is difficult to define which the proper method to learn a new language is but we can draw some conclusions on previous experiences. The most used method nowadays is the communicative teaching method, which is considered to be more of an achievement than a real method. As a method it emphasizes the interaction among students and it is called “communicative achievements in a foreign language”. In other words the ability to communicate requires more than a simple lingual competence and it means to know when and how to say something to someone

Communicative teaching methods in foreign languages

Communication and the importance of interaction

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