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Strategic competence and how to teach it
Lecturer at the Department of English, Eötvös University, Budapest, where he is involved in teacher training and research in TEFL. He holds a PhD in psycholinguistics and has published several papers on the social psychological background of foreign langauge learning. He is also co-author of two vocabulary-building English course books.
degree in Modern Languages from Oxford, and has taught EFL in France and Hungary. Currently, she is a Lecturer in English at the Teacher Training Institute of Eötvös University, Budapest. Her interests involve the designing of communicative classroom activities, and she has co-authored a vocabulary-building English course book.
Applied linguists have for some time suggested that communicative competence includes a major component, usually termed strategic competence, the development of which largely determines the learner's fluency and conversational skills. Practising teachers, however, are usually unaware of the significance of this competence, and hardly any activities have been developed to include strategy training in actual language teaching. The aim of this article is to bridge the gap between theory and practice by first describing strategic competence and then presenting language exercises to facilitate its development.