Developing Communicative Competence With Reference To Organizing Communicative Activities In College English Teaching

Communicative competence refers to the ability not only to apply the grammatical rules of a language in order to form grammatically correct sentences but also to know when and where to use these sentences and to whom. Communicative language teaching has been paid more and more attention to in College English teaching. But the question of how students should learn in order to develop communicative competence is debated and redebated. From a pedagogical point of view, this paper discusses the historical development of language teaching and the theories of communicative competence and it points out that communicative competence is the desired goal of language teaching. Also based on the detailed analysis of the present situation of College English teaching and some obstacles to the development of communicative competence, this paper addresses the issue of organizing communicative activities in College English teaching.