Development of English Language Learners’ Communicative Competence through Communicative Activities

Abstract

The study aims to develop learners’ Communicative Competence. To ensure that, the study sets three hypotheses, third secondary students are weak in listening and speaking skills, the implementation of the communicative activities impact positively on teaching the listening and speaking skills, there is no a statistical difference on the standards of the listening and speaking skills for the students who are instructed according to the principles of the communicative activities and the one who are instructed according to the traditional activities. The study applies the experiment by selecting two groups of (41students) randomly, experimental group(21students) and control group(20students) from Khartoum secondary schools for boys. The study used the quantitative method. After the statistical analysis of the pre-posttests for both groups the study revealed that: third secondary school students are weak in listening and speaking, communicative activities had impacted positively on teaching the listening and speaking skills, there is statistical difference on the standards of the listening and speaking skills for the students who are instructed according to the Communicative Activities and the students who are instructed according to the Traditional one. Then the study recommends that: Traditional activities should be replaced by the communicative activities; English language teachers should receive large doses of training on applying the principles of the communicative activities.