Volume 7 Issue 3
Competence and Teaching English as an International Language
Roger Nunn considers different types of competence in relation to the teaching of English as an International Language, arguing that linguistic competence has yet to be adequately addressed in recent considerations of EIL. The paper first discusses the need to reconsider the scope of ‘communicative competence’ and then goes on to consider other kinds of competence relevant to EIL including linguistic competence.
Principles of Instructed Language Learning
We need to look deeply at times into the specific needs of learners in Asia and the Pacific region who we cannot forget are still very much living in local contexts -not only an evidently increasingly global one. That being said, there is much to learn from these studies that can be borrowed and lent across a number of frontiers.
