Promoting Strategic Competence: What Simulations Can Do for You

Tânia Gastão Saliés
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Tânia Gastão Saliés: Pontifícia Universidade Católica, do Rio de Janeiro

Simulation & Gaming, 2002, vol. 33, issue 3, 280-283

Abstract: This article integrates major outcomes of a simulation-based approach to teaching foreign language and links it to learners’attainment of strategic competence. According to existing research, curricula inspired by the approach seem to promote favorable conditions for language acquisition. If language teachers design simulations that help learners to assess the characteristics of the language situation, set communicative goals, plan responses, and control the execution of their plans, they help learners to become strategically competent and pave the way to communicative competence.

Keywords: autonomous learner; communicative competence; critical thinking; foreign language teaching; metacognitive awareness; motivation; positive affect; second language acquisition; strategic competence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/104687810203300303

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