Fostering the communicative competence through courses at missouri state university

Abstract

In this article the most frequent factors for the improvement of the communicative competence are analyzed, in this case, English. This was possible thanks to a case study of 6 students of B.A the English program from Universidad La Gran Colombia, who offered to this research all their experience in this kind of immersion course. They shared that experience by some interviews and life stories which were really important for the final result. For this research, the participants made an immersion course at Missouri State University; some of them in 2013 and others in 2014. In this way, the research gives a perspective about how to act and which aspects should be taken into account in order to improve the communicative competence as much as possible in short immersion spaces.