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Communicative Competence And Cognitive Competence Essay

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In the previous chapter, the literature on communicative competence has been discussed. The researcher began with defining communicative competence and briefly talked about four theories and five theoretical frameworks. Later on, the researcher talked about elements of communicative competence as well as its sub-elements and how to teach them with relations to the four language skills. Finally, the researcher discussed communicative language teaching (CLT) as it depends on communicative competence in its basis. So far, in this chapter, the researcher will talk about the research design as well as the methodological tools that will be used in collecting data.
3.1 Research design and methods
3.1.1 Research design Research design provides the procedures by which the researcher can collect the required data for answering the research questions. According to Griffee, a research design is "an operating model or blueprint for a research project, which accounts for internal reasoning (causality) and external reasoning (generalizability)" (41).
Interestingly, the researcher thoroughly consulted the existing knowledge in the field of communicative competence so that he could get a clear and precise design to investigate the present research problem. Particularly to what extent secondary school teachers of English language focus on elements of communicative competence while they teach English as a school subjects to their students at Yaff 'ea districts, South Yemen. To reach

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