Stručni rad
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v20i0.2322
The Impact of Listening and Speaking Language Skills on the Development of Communicative Competence
Dunja Pavličević-Franić
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education
Sažetak
The aim of the Croatian language teaching in elementary school is to enable students to develop language communicative competence which would allow them to successfully acquire the curriculum, and to be functionally included in the lifelong learning process (NPiP, 2006). Since the process of language acquisition does not only include acquiring linguistic and communicative elements but also developing psychosocial skills, L1 communication is emphasized as the first and most important out of eight key competences in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Vijeće Europe, 2005). Therefore, all the participants within the educational process are expected to encourage the development of language competences – firstly communicative and then linguistic competence.
A child enters the language communication process by means of listening and imitating adult speakers of a language community, after which the processes of repetition and understanding, and the act of speaking are triggered. After finishing preschool, school-age children develop more complex language skills such as reading and writing. However, the basic skills of listening and speaking should still not be neglected. Unfortunately, the teaching experience and scientific research (Aladrović-Slovaček, 2011; Cvikić, Pavličević-Franić, & Aladrović-Slovaček, 2015; Jelaska, 2005; Pavličević-Franić, 2005, 2011) point to the fact that it is precisely the basic language skills of listening and speaking that are not being sufficiently included in the teaching process.
Therefore, the aim of this paper is to articulate the immense importance of the receptive skill of listening and the productive skill of speaking within the process of learning and teaching Croatian, since they are the basic linguistic skills necessary both for acquiring the Croatian language and other school subjects.
Ključne riječi
communicative competence; linguistic competence; listening and speaking language skills.
Hrčak ID:
214280
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.10.2018.
Posjeta: 2.787 *