COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE AND LANGUAGE LEARNING STYLES OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
Keywords:
Communicative competence, language learning style, prospective teachers of English, language performanceAbstract
This paper is aimed at exploring the possible relationshipbetween the level of communicative competence and language learning styles of prospective teachers of English. Results of the study on over all competence show test show that the prospective teachers of English are fairly competent users of English with a total mean of 23.97 with standard deviation of 5.44. In terms of their language learning styles, results of the study also show that their style of orientation belonged to sensory orientation scale with a frequency of 39 or 69%. Correlation analysis, however, shows the insignificant relationship between the level of communicative competence and language learning styles of prospective teachers of English. This indicates that the language learning style has no bearing on the level of communicative competence of prospective teachers of English. Therefore, it is recommended that experiences in actual school environments for prospective teachers of English should also be enhanced in addition to a series of courses that will develop language learning style and communicative competence of prospective teachers of English.
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