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Formulaic language for improving communicative competence
Assassi, Tarek1, Benyelles, Radia2.
English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ communicative competence presents a challenge
for both students and instructors. Being communicatively competent leads the language user to
avoid any kind of breakdown of communication; thus, reaching fluency which is the main aim of
foreign language learners (EFL learners). The acquisition of the notion of formulaicity provides a
great deal of help for EFL learners to achieve native-like language proficiency and that is the
main hypothesis of this study. The main aim of this research is to draw learners’ attention
towards formulaic language and to investigate its effects on their communicative competence. To
achieve this purpose, the present research is designed to answer the following questions: (1) what
is formulaicity? (2) Is the acquisition of formulaic language important for EFL learners to reach
communicative competence? (3) Is designing a course for this subject helpful to reach learners’
language aims? An experiment is conducted through a pre and a post test in addition to the
treatment of six sessions of instruction to carry out the comparative study using the paired t test
result as statistical proof. After the comparison of the pre-test and the post test, the results
revealed a substantial progress for the experimental group’s communicative competence and thus
their conversational competence as well. As a result, formulaic language needs to be an essential
part of EFL learners’ curriculum according to its variation and enormous effects on learners’
communicative competence in both writing and speaking skills.
Affiliation:
- University of Abou Bekr Belkaid, Algeria
- University of Abou Bekr Belkaid, Algeria
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