La competencia comunicativa en alumnos de la especialidad de «Lengua Extranjera» de magisterio de la Universidad de Granada

Abstract

This article sets out that communicative competence in teaching is an indispensable aspect in a society characterized by a constant rhythm of change. However, this aspect has been unattended until present day. An important role of teachers specialized in teaching other languages is to make pupils from primary school understand that foreign languages must be studied in order to be able to communicate with other people, not just for passing the subject. furthermore, the teacher must be leader of the students learning process by making creation of significances easier and through the application of metacognitives schemes with pupils such as teaching them to think, to learn and by to arrange sources of information. from this premise and according to the research made by faculty of Teaching in University of granada, we have tried to establish the level of communicative competence of students in this faculty. Starting from a quantitative study research through questionnaire, we can see the perception that students from third course, who are about to end their initial formation in Teaching, have their own communicate competence. Also, it is presented here an analysis of the comparison between the perception that students from first course and students from last course have about this point. After the rate analysis, this article talks about the widespread lack of communicate competence of students from faculty of Teaching. This lack exists notably at the beginning and, to a lesser extent, at the end of their studies.