Developing Communicative Competence

Abstract

The teaching of English is a huge world-wide industry employing many people and bringing large revenues to English speaking countries. It bridges the large gap between cultures paving way for a multicultural society. When there are innumerable methods of teaching English and humpty number of agencies like the TEFL striving to promote learning strategies to facilitate language l earning, there are variations in English. Even the need for the language has different contexts, features and aims. English being a foreign language, the teaching of English has been experimented through many approaches. Needs have become varied and as English for many students is indeed their second or third language, it varies within the educated class and also is used among business and common man. These variations of English serve different purposes. Variation in a wide sense includes for example the ways in which a user’s accent and dialect varies from individual to individual across time and place, the ways in which it differs between old and young, male and female. The role of this variation is pervasive and influencing extensively on the students than is realized.