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The communicative competence

 

                 It is of paramount importance to develop students’ communicative competence, the ability to produce the language effectively and efficiently. That is, the teacher must focus mainly on it in order to gear students to interact with others. As it appears, in Moroccan EFL curriculum, the communicative competence is developed through using standard-based approach, the use of communication, and it requires the use of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation.

              To start the discussion about the focus on communicative competence within Moroccan EFL classes through the use of standard- based approach. Obviously, standard – based approach focuses clearly on many components- such as, culture, comparison and connection ; communities and communication. More specifically, communication as a process of interaction and of exchanging information about a particular topic and the ability to speak another language. In the same way, in Moroccan EFL classes, communicative competence is the major focus to develop per se students’competences and abilities to speak English clearly and collaboratively in the class-room or outside the class-room. As it is well-known’’ English as a vernacular language’’which gives the students the impression to use that language in the process of communication.

                  As it is well- stated about the use of communicative competence in Moroccan EFL classes, it is vital to talk about the need of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in order to use the language in the process of communication.. On the one hand, the intrinsic motivation is of great import for students in EFL classes – seemingly, the teacher must lead the students to use this language in communication by urging them to aquire an intrinsic motivation, the motivation which comes from the inside. Perhaps not surprisingly, it is neccessary for the teacher to impose, to try and to encourage his or her students extrinsically in order to be self- motivated and self- esteem. Clearly enough, extrinsic motivation can be the reason why the students want to develop their communicative competence e.g., to speak English fluently in order to manage an hotel or a work place or just to use it through media.

                    Within Moroccan EFL classes, the teacher must focus authentically on communicative  competence in order to lead students to be able to speak the language fluently and effectively. And, at the same time, the students will use English language for many purposes. That is to say, all teachers of English must help students to be able to speak and listen i.e., to use that language for communication by adopting Standard- Based Approach.

 

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