%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluaci¨®n de la puesta en marcha del enfoque metodol¨®gico por competencias comunicativas FOCAL SKILLS
%A Yilorm Barrientos
%A Yasna Ang¨¦lica
%A Lizasoain Conejeros
%A Andrea B¨¢rbara Alicia
%J Literatura y ling¨¹¨ªstica
%D 2012
%I Universidad Cat¨®lica Silva Henr¨ªquez
%R 10.4067/S0716-58112012000100007
%X this work describes the methodological approach to communicative competence focal skills as proposed by hastings (2007 [1988]) -an approach that is related to jakobson's communication model (1960) and to chomsky's theory of communicative competence (1965) - and considers its possible application within the universidad austral de chile as a strategy for improving acquisition of english as a foreign language by students. this paper also examines the methodology for implementing this approach and the obstacles which the researchers have faced, along with possible solutions.
%K communication model
%K communicative competence
%K innovating methodological approach in the classroom
%K focal skills
%K acquisition of foreign languages.
%U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0716-58112012000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en