Rita Divéki

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom


Global Competence Development through Speaking Activities

Given that the third dimension of global competence (engaging in open, appropriate, and effective interactions across cultures) is primarily concerned with equipping students with skills to communicate, it has already been established above that the foreign language lesson is one of the most suitable terrains for developing students’ global competence. As Harmer (2007) puts it, “the communicative approach has left an indelible mark on teaching and learning” (p. 71), which resulted in placing primary emphasis on communicative activities (in speaking and writing) in classrooms all over the world. The main premise of communicative language teaching is that students “should have a desire to communicate something” (p. 69), so the activities teachers give to their students should encourage the willingness to communicate. While engaging in the activity, students should primarily be focused on the content of what they are trying to communicate rather than the form. Given that the tasks designed for the classroom studies presented later in the book (Studies 5 and 6) mainly focus on developing students’ communication through speaking tasks, so teaching writing to this end is beyond the scope of the research, in what follows, this section details how different speaking activities can contribute to students’ global competence development.

Developing Global Competence in the Hungarian EFL Classroom

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Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2024

ISBN: 978 963 664 013 2

In today’s world, there are increasing demands for education systems for empowering students to become active and responsible global citizens who are prepared to address the challenges of the 21st century and who are equipped with global competence. This book examines global competence development (GCD) in English language teaching in Hungary from the perspective of university English as a foreign language (EFL) teacher trainers and secondary school EFL teachers. Based on the findings, it details the characteristics of globally competent teachers, offers a wide array of activities that can be used for nurturing global citizens, and outlines recommendations for the successful implementation of GCD in both secondary and tertiary education.

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