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标题：Communicative Language Tasks to Enhance Young Learners’ Communicative Competence
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作者：Theresa Chermi Legak ; Wahiza Wahi
期刊名称：International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
电子版ISSN：2222-6990
出版年度：2020
卷号：10
期号：6
页码：377-390
DOI：10.6007/IJARBSS/v10-i6/7308
语种：English
出版社：Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
摘要：The Malaysian curriculum reform in 2011 for English as a Second Language (ESL) was designed with the intent to set a national curriculum system that is on par with international standards by adopting CEFR into the ESL classroom. However, challenges arose when rural primary school learners were found to have lower proficiency level. Therefore, this study investigated the impact of communicative language tasks on rural primary school learners’ communicative competence in Julau, Sarawak, Malaysia. This study also explored the learners’ perspective towards the communicative language tasks in developing their communicative competence. Informed by the qualitative approach of data collection, this study employed pre-test, post-test and individual interviews with ten research participants selected through purposive sampling. Findings from this study disclosed that the CEFR-aligned communicative language tasks enhanced the learners’ grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse and strategic communicative competence. The findings also revealed that the learners have developed intrinsic motivation and interest to learn English using the communicative language tasks.