Developing Foreign Language Communicative Competence Using English Folk Tales in the Process of Teaching

Student: Krylova Alla

Educational Programme: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2017

This thesis focuses on the meaning and historical development of the term "communicative competence", its content and purposes as well as English teaching methods. Special attention is paid to the role of folk tales. Types of English folk tales and their usage for developing foreign language communicative competence is the central part of this work. A system of exercises was created and tested to find out whether using English folk tales is an effective mean to develop linguistic and sociocultural components of communicative competence.

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