COMPETENCES
Mención de Lengua Extranjera
(Tercera Clase)
What are competences?
Zabala (2008:43-45)
“It is the capacity to carry out
tasks or confront diverse
situations in an efficient
way in a given context. It
is neccesary to set
attitudes, skills, and
knowledge in motion, and
this should be done in an
integrated and interrelated
way.”
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“Competences need to
identify whatever a person
needs to give answer to
life-long problems.
Therefore, competence
consists of efficient
intervention in different life
situations wherein the
aforementioned attitudes,
skills and knowledge are
integrated.”
Knowledge IN EXECUTION
Competential features
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Integrate concepts,
procedures, attitudes
Practical purpose
Contextualisation
Answer to society of
knowledge
Focus on needs
Level of achievement
Once Opon a Time…
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1998 UNESCO
European Council at
Lisbon 2000 (People!)
Succession of European
Councils
Objectives of Education
and Training 2010
European Council 2006
KEY COMPETENCES (European
Parliament)
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Communication in the
mother tongue
Communication in
foreign languages
Mathematical
competence and basic
competence in
Science and
Technology
Digital Competence
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Learning to Learn
Social and Civil
Competences
Sense of Initiative and
Enterprise Spirit
Cultural Expression
and Conscience
What about us…?
Our Educational System…
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Basic competences are the main reference
for diagnosis evaluation
Reference point in terms of evaluation and
promotion
BASIC COMPETENCES
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Linguistic
Communication
Mathematical
Competence
Knowledge and
Interaction with the
Physical World
Treatment of
Information and Digital
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Social and Civic
Cultural and Artistic
Learning to Learn
Autonomy and
Personal Initiative
Emotional
Competence (Castilla
La Mancha)
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC
COMPETENCES (Zabala, 2007)
GENERAL
COMPETENCES
Respond to a real, specific
situation in a place and a
given context. They are
formulated according to
capacities that represent
their dimmensions.
e.g. read, write, speak, listen
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SPECIFIC
COMPETENCES
Derivation of a general
competence, which is
what really gives sense to
a general competence.
e.g. orally present opinions
about the implications of
human intervention on the
environment, respect
cultural and linguistic
differences, etc.
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HOW DO WE FORMULATE THEM?
GENERAL
COMPETENCE
Action verb in Infinitive with a
competential content
(e.g. Read all types of texts)
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SPECIFIC
COMPETENCE
(e.g. Respect Spanish
cultural and linguistic
differences)
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OPERATIONAL
COMPETENCE: shortterm skills/strategies
e.g. Dialogue in an ordered
and respectful way about
linguistic diversity in Spain
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HOW DO WE EVALUATE THEM?
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Organic Law 8/2013, 9th of December, for
the Improvement of Educational Quality
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPB41q97zg&hd=1
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Educational Standards
RICHARD GERVER
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Creating Tomorrow’s
School Today (2010)
“To be successful you must
respect failure and
understand the power that
not knowing can give you.
Very few ever truly aim
high enough or realice
their potential. The really
successful never stop
trying, never stop making
mistakes and never feel
that they have got all the
answers.”
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES
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Noah Chomsky
(Competence/Performance)
Dell Hymes (60’s) – Communicative
Competence
Systematic potential
Appropriacy
Feasibility
Occurrence
CANALE & SWAIN (1983)
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Grammatical Competence
Sociolinguistic Competence
Pragmatic Competence
Strategic Competence
Read…
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COMMON EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK OF
REFERENCE FOR LANGUAGES (2001)
Available on the internet
SUBCOMPETENCES
Grammatical competence
 Phonological competence
 Semantic competence
 Lexical competence
 Syntactic competence
 Orthographic competence
 Orthopoeic competence
 Sociolinguistic competence
 Strategic competence
 Etc.
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What is OUT objective?
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What is our concern?
Communicative
Competence or
acquire British
pronunciation?
How do we
distinguish?
What is purity?