Competency-Based Language Teaching

Is an educational movement that focuses on the
1. Outcomes
2. Outputs
  1. The focus on outputs rather than on inputs, is central to the competencies perspective.
3. Of learning in the development of language programs.
It addresses what the learners are expected to do with the language
1. And also it is outcome-based and is adaptive to
  1. The changing needs of
    1. Students
    2. Teachers
    3. Comunity
Refers to an educational movement that advocates
1. Defining educational goals in terms of precise measurable descriptions of the:
  1. Knowledge
  2. Skills
  3. Behaviors
  4. That students should possess at the end of a course of study.
It is based on a functional and interactional perspective on the nature of language.
1. And it seeks to teach language in relation to the social contexts in which it is used.
Advantages
1. The competencies are specific and practical and can be seen to relate to the learner’s needs and interests.
2. The learner can judge whether the competencies seem relevant and useful
3. The competencies that will be taught and tested are specific and public – hence the learner knows exactly what needs to be learned.
4. Competencies can be mastered one at a time so the learner can see what has been learned and what still remains to be learned.
Disadvantages
1. Tollefson (1986) argues that it doesn't have no valid procedures available to develop competency lists for most programs.
2. Many of the areas for which competencies are needed are impossible to operationalize.
3. It has also been claimed that dividing activities up into sets of competencies is a reductionist approach.

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