Evaluación de la puesta en marcha del enfoque metodológico por competencias comunicativas FOCAL SKILLS

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.