مجلة علوم اللسان
Volume 2, Numéro 2, Pages 232-239
2013-12-01

Wich Communication For Which Socioeducational Environment?

Authors : Bouhass Benaissi Fawzia .

Abstract

This work relates to the teaching of English as a foreign language in the context of the language departments of the Algerian university. lt focuses on the development of one aspect of communicative competence, namely the cultural aspect in oral communication. it attempts to explain the impact of the foreign language classroom as a limited (and limiting) Larget socio-cultural environment on students' outcome. The assumptions behind this work are based on the author 's experience and observation of many students' difficulties to comprehend and transmit messages with ease in their own educational context. Such learners will probably be more defiant if/when found in genuine cross -cultural interactional situations.

Keywords

EFL; Intercultural competence; oral communication; socio-cultural environment