Communicative Competence in English by Dr. R. Ramesh (book club reads txt) 📕

able to produce satisfactory results. Report writing was another activity in which learners get confused with tense and reported speech. In Describing Characteristics and Forseeing results, learners commit mistakes in sentence construction. Debate was a spirited activity in which learners felt no hesitation to express their ideas and disagreements freely. Publicity campaign is another activity which incorporates dialogue writing and script writing. Each learner brought out different views and ideas and they did well in this exercise. While doing public talk, learners felt easy and frequency of errors became decreased. Review writing was another activity where learners felt difficult because lack of reading habits. Pros and cons and Picture difference activities felt easy for them.

All these activities were intented to mould the whole personality of learners. Through these activities, they were not only able to develop their language, but also their manners, total behavior and soft skills. Thus at the end of this course, researcher felt that, all the learners who were participated in this course get benefited and they could communicate freely in any situation they were encountered with.


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