Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain

1. Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain Presentation by: Elena Kadi-Montague Dionisis Psoinos Marilena Choraitou Persia Dafnou Alexander Strbak Presentation slides by Elena Kadi-Montague

2. Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain Focus of her research: the relationships between input and output at the level of language proficiency Sample of the research: Native and immerse speakers of English learning French as a second language( infrequent use of French-only by the teacher and by non-native peers). Swain�s hypothesis: Although comprehensible input (Krashen,1981 b 1982) may be essential to the acquisition of a second language, it is not enough to ensure that the outcome will be native like performance. ?She introduced the term of �comprehensible output�

3. Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain Overall aim ?to explore the influences of : 1.Social 2.Educational ? Variables on the processes and outcomes of SLA 3.Individual Linguistic traits under research(as Canale and Swain proposed,1980) 1.Grammatical 2.Discourse 3.Sociolinguistic

4. Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain Grammatical competence

5. Communicative competence: Some roles of comprehensible input and comprehensible output in its development-Merrill Swain The results? The immerse students had not acquired native like abilities (the native students scored higher than them).