LLCU 424 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Communication Strategies In Second-Language Acquisition, Language Testing, Content Validity

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Course: LLCU 424
• Professor: Dr. Tomas McCone

Document Summary

Language competence organizational competence and pragmatic competence (knowing how the world works) Illocutionary competence (how language works; implications; know the message behind the words) and sociolinguistic competence (cultural understandings, understanding social contexts, etc. ) (pragmatic) Bachman and palmer also identified strategic competence as an important component of language competence. Strategic competence the ability to employ communicative strategies to compensate for breakdowns as well as enhance the rhetorical effect of utterances. Real-world tasks that language-learners were called on to perform had to be identified and the contexts for them needed to be validated by what language users actually do with the language. Authenticity of tasks and the genuineness of texts would help make this possible. Involves oral production, written production, open-ended responses, integrated performance (across skill areas), group performance, and other interactive tasks. Higher content validity is achieved because learners are measured while they are in the process of actually performing the targeted linguistic acts.