Essay “Communicative Competences”

September 10th 2014

Introduction
In the following essay I will talk about communicative competences, competence-based education and an introductory about the history of the term in order to delve into the topic and its definition. The essay is based in readings according to the topic and not so much in my thought but I express what I understand and what I achieve through the readings.
Body
The competence term comes from the Greeks. It referred that someone who is prepared to win and to be recognized. Since ancient time the word competition was defined as competing whit each other. Since Pythagoras, Platon and Aristoteles it change the way was using the word to means be the best in knowledge. They began to measure skills in students and what they were capable doing.
In this days communicative competences are abilities for a correct perform of a task, as a student when is learning and acquiring a second language, he needs to achieve certain skills like; speaking, listening, grammar, reading. Those skills will help him to communicate correctly and interact in real life.
Nowadays is necessary to conceive education as a centered process in the learner instead of a process that only transmits knowledge. That is the reason of the competence-based education in which says that a competence is a capacity expressed as knowledge, skills an attitudes required to perform a task intelligently, in a real environment or in a another context.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the competence is very important to develop our skills and to measure the things that we know. Actually is important to be able to perform efficiently all the communicative competences in order to be successful at school or at work, but I think that is not only part of what we are getting in classes because we as a students need to investigate, to look for more information that could be helpful whit our studying or career.