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<p> The paper discusses some elementary concepts and issues in competence based education (CBE) in general and in a competence-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language in particular. It is shown how some basic assumptions and concepts apparently widely adopted in CBE and language pedagogy are confusing, misguided, and incoherent and how some of the incoherence and inconsistencies may be resolved.</p>
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The paper discusses some elementary concepts and issues in competence based education (CBE) in general and in a competence-based approach to teaching English as a foreign language in particular. It is shown how some basic assumptions and concepts apparently widely adopted in CBE and language pedagogy are confusing, misguided, and incoherent and how some of the incoherence and inconsistencies may be resolved.

On Competence-Based Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Matej Bel University

Romanian Journal of English Studies

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The paper discusses some elementary concepts and issues in competence based education (CBE) in general and in a competence-based approach to teaching English...

On Competence-Based Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 91 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0010-2

Keywords
competence, skill, knowledge, communicative language teaching, competence-based education

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

On Competence-Based Approaches to Teaching English as a Foreign Language

Published Online: Feb 21, 2013

Page range: 91 - 100

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0010-2

Keywordscompetence, skill, knowledge, communicative language teaching, competence-based education

© 2012 by Versita

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
competence, skill, knowledge, communicative language teaching, competence-based education