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1. Development of Communicative Competence in
English in an Interactive Platform
By
Blanca Lilia Rosales Bremont
José Francisco Zarate Ortiz
Armando Lozano Rodríguez
Interactive programs for language teaching are in vogue; however, research in
this area is just emerging. This paper intends to provide insight into its use and
scope in the development of communicative competence. Studies to understand
the cognitive process that involves the acquisition and development of
communicative competence, their characteristics and the factors involved, in
order to identify the level of competition that a student can gain through a
program for learning and practice English language online, make up the body of
underlying ideas in this work.

2. Type of Knowledge: Empirical
I conclude that this research is empirical because the researcher observed,
investigated and collected information, which he described in detail and analyzed
based on theories and experiences in their own. As we can see in the article intends
to provide insight into the use of interactive programs for English teaching and its
scope in the development of communicative competence though experimentation
and the collect of data in order to reach a conclusion of what is happening in the
English program based on theories.
Practical Research
The article is practical because we can see that the researcher seeks for information
about the problem, then with the results obtained , he gives a wide-detailed
description to the problem through experimentation in an English class in order to
know the situation and raise a conclusion of what is happening there in a detailed
way.

3. Descriptive research
It was not only was intended to gather information and analyze the results,
but give solutions to the problem through proposals that were feasible to
implement in the educational environment in which was conducted the
research.

4. Purpose
The purpose of the research was to understand the importance of oral
interaction with the tutor or peers in the development of communicative
competence of students who took the English learning program online Tell
Me More. It also seeks to know what challenges a student faces who studied
English online to develop those powers are; what are your weaknesses and
what are the possible solutions to overcome them. Also, find out if the self-regulated
and self managed learning of English online promote or develop
communicative competence. Similarly, describe how students perceived the
lack of verbal interaction with a second agent and how it affected their
performance to communicate verbally, and to identify what levels of
communicative competence came to develop according to the standards of
oral proficiency of the CEFR.

5. Research Questions
• How to identify the level of communicative competence
that students reach of the English Tell Me More program
in high school?
• ¿Qué retos enfrentan los alumnos de aprendizaje de inglés
en línea para desarrollar su competencia comunicativa?

6. Data Collection
Focus Groups:
Students from the Inglés Program Tell Me More in Cecati 110. The selection of
students who constitute the sample consisted of an interview via phone, then
it was told to return them to come to campus to an oral interview.
Materials:
• Structured and semi-open interviews
• Observations
• Surveys
• Statistical Data

7. Data Analysis
Most students could express what they wanted to say with single words without being able to
complete simple sentences; were able to communicate information about their family, where they
live and work very simply.
Mostly, they were not able to structure subject verb combining simple sentences; however, they
made an effort to communicate with the limited vocabulary they have, and showed security interact
in basic levels A1. Some of them made use of long pauses to allow time to build their ideas, but only
few of them showed knowledge of basic structures of the language, as conjugation of verbs or
auxiliary uses.

8. Why do you consider the researcher selected that particular design and not
another?
In my opinion, they wanted to gather information and analyze the results of
it. They wanted to be more specific and more deeply about the problem, that
is why they chose a descriptive research because what they wanted is to find
the problem but at the same time give solution to the problem in the English
classroom through specific proposals to improve the communicative
competence in English Language through a interactive platform. Morever,
they do not want just see the problem and studying it but give solutions
though specific interviews, observations and surveys to reach a conclusion
and from there, to plan a solution or establish a plan to solve it.

9. References
Rosales, B.,Zarate, J.,Lozano, A. (December, 2013) Desarrollo de la competencia
comunicativa en el idioma inglés en una plataforma interactiva. Sinéctica, 41.
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Wikipedia. (2014, September 8). Descriptive research - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia. Retrieved September 19, 2014, from
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