%0 Journal Article %T Didactic strategy to contribute to the development of communicative competence in Health Psychology students Estrategia did芍ctica para contribuir al desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa en estudiantes de Psicolog赤a de la salud %A Ana Mar赤a Molina G車mez %A Angelina Rom谷u Escobar %A Miriam Guti谷rrez Escobar %A Mar赤a Elinor Dulzaides Iglesias %J MediSur %D 2011 %I Centro Provincial de Informaci車n de las Ciencias M谷dicas en Cienfuegos %X Background: the cognitive, socio-cultural and communicative language teaching approach reveals the importance of syntactic speech closely related to semantic and pragmatic dimensions and aimed at understanding, analysis and construction of discourse. Objective: to design a didactic strategy that contributes to the development of communicative competence. Methods: pedagogic research on the teaching- learning process of Spanish grammar for first year students of Health Psychology in the University of Medical Sciences of Cienfuegos. The amount of knowledge students have on grammatical contents and functionality of the structures in the text and their perception and the one from former teachers on the importance of grammatical knowledge and the way it is addressed were determined. Methods used: analytic and synthetic; logical and historical; inductive and deductive; systemic, structural and modeling; as well as a desk study, surveys, diagnostic testing and consulting experts. Results: the methodologies for teaching grammar in previous educational levels do not enhance the development of communicative competence. Changes were made on the syllabus according to the cognitive, communicative and sociocultural approach and a teaching strategy successfully assessed by experts and involving the treatment of grammar from a communicative-functional perspective using this approach was proposed. Conclusions: a teaching strategy based on the cognitive, communicative and sociocultural approach for teaching Spanish grammar contributes to the development of communicative competence. Fundamento: el enfoque cognitivo, comunicativo y sociocultural de la ense anza de la lengua, revela la importancia de la dimensi車n sint芍ctica del discurso en indisoluble relaci車n con las dimensiones sem芍ntica y pragm芍tica, en funci車n de la comprensi車n, an芍lisis y construcci車n de discursos. Objetivo: dise ar una estrategia did芍ctica que contribuya al desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa.M谷todos: investigaci車n pedag車gica sobre el proceso de ense anza aprendizaje de la asignatura Gram芍tica Espa ola, desarrollada en la Universidad de Ciencias M谷dicas de Cienfuegos, con estudiantes de primer a o de la carrera Psicolog赤a de la salud. Se determin車 el grado de conocimientos que poseen los alumnos sobre contenidos gramaticales y la funcionalidad de las estructuras en el texto, la percepci車n de estos y de profesores de ense anzas precedente sobre la importancia de los conocimientos gramaticales y la forma en que son abordados. Se utilizaron como m谷todos: an芍lisis y s赤ntesis, hist車rico-l車gico, inducti %K Comunicaci車n %K aptitud %K ense anza %K lenguaje %K estudiantes de salud p迆blica %K psicolog赤a %U http://www.medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/1421