Uso del enfoque comunicativo para el desarrollo de las competencias en los estudiantes del centro de Idiomas de la Universidad La Gran Colombia

Abstract

The following scientific article focuses on the evaluation of the use of the communicative method for the development of communicative competences in the teaching and learning processes of the foreign language in Gran Colombia University Language center, which are stablished from Ministry of National Education, regarding the use of the previously mentioned foreign language. The method of study that was carried out was based on evaluative research, so it was necessary: first, to characterize the teaching method of the educational institution, ie to know the theory of the communicative approach and second, to do data collection through interviews, surveys and daily journals, and to make an analysis to contrast theory with practice, which responds to describe the educational practices of the educational institution. As a result, it was obtained that the method of teaching that is put into practice in the language center of the great Colombia university is the communicative approach to get students to develop the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for the acquisition of English as a second language And the difficulties presented in the educational practices of the same are: development of communicative skills, development of effective and appropriate tasks in specific contexts, ability to understand and produce different statements in written and oral