Philippine E-Journals

Communicative Activities: Their Effects on the English Language Anxiety and Oral Proficiency Levels Among Freshman Nautical Students

Eva Labrada-Alcantara

 

Abstract:

Effective communication is considered one of the most important skills that individuals should have. In fact, speaking is the most common and primary means of providing communication among human beings. To be communicatively competent, one must be fluent, accurate, knowledgeable of the social context, and able to compensate for possible communication breakdowns (Canale and Swain, 1980). To do so, learners must be exposed to the target language to provide them with an acquisition-rich environment, which requires learners to listen and to read authentic texts and use the target language in and outside the classroom.