Reflection and Practice in Virtual education.

Week 2: The uses of language and how they change our practices:

The action oriented approach advocated that language can be learnt through communication language competence not as just a system of rules or grammar. For learners to develop their language competence, they should bring to the fore the three main competencies that are linguistic competence, socio-linguistic and pragmatic competence. This can be developped through meaningful and authentic situation that are based on current practice of the newly acquired functions, chunks and language exchange patterns.When the learner is aware of the three competencies, they manage to control and manipulate the pragmatic force, communicative capacity, level of politeness or formality in any discourse! Thus they become autonomous and manage to produce language meaningfully.