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Developing Sociolinguistic Competence Through Aural/Oral Communication Course

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Published on 1997

http://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED029011
Robert Juppe argues that high school
students come into university with fairly
high levels of grammatical competence, but
often, with a low level on their
sociolinguistic competences in terms of
foreign languages
This source addresses its contents to the
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to education of SLA.
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second language. It is written in an
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to strengthen my theory, sociolinguistic

skills within a context is essential by the
time teaching a second language. This
sorce talks about some weakness on
students on their linguistics skill for not
being appropriate taught
Robert JUPPE Jr

Sociolinguistic

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http://www.tsukuba-

g.ac.jp/library/kiyou/97/Robert.pdf

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JUPPE

Communication

Jr.

1997)

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http://www.tsukuba-

g.ac.jp/library/kiyou/97/Robert.pdf

Robert Juppe argues that high school students come into university with fairly high levels of
grammatical competence, but often, with a low level on their sociolinguistic competences in

terms of foreign languages. This source is written in a illustrative way due to some samples of
how to teach critically sociolinguistic competences in course activities, and also, and in
instructional terms, it defines some sociolinguistic competences principal components.

teaching sociolinguistic skill in the classroom, how educators could foster students to communicate in
real situations