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COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY

Authors: IDOWU Olubunmi

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: 736-16 Institute For Christian Teaching

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Communicative strategies are those linguistic processes that are consciously selected by language users to enhance communicative competence. Being interactional in nature, language teachers can intentionally select the appropriate communicative strategies for teaching in order to enhance the students' learning and use of the target language through storage, retention, recall and application of the linguistic knowledge. Therefore, the use of communicative strategies for teaching language is invaluable because any form of good teaching or communication should create a unified impression on the mind of the listener or reader. This can be achieved when the
speaker or writer has a clearly defined theme through which his subject matter will be expressed as meaningfully and relevantly as possible. For the Christian teacher, the main theme is Christian vision and values.Given the previous Integration of Faith and learning essays on language teaching as a second or a foreign language (Beckerl993 and Maidon-Lampad2000), this essay aims at filling the gap of
teaching language generally, and especially in a multicultural setting where the teaching of language can be frustrating for both students and teachers in terms of achieving accuracy and fluency due to the highly heterogeneous nature of the audience groups. As a Christian teacher, by explicating the various tools of communicative competence: introduction, structure, grammatical and lexical forms of cohesion employed by God and Jesus in the Decalogue and the Beatitudes respectively, and their implications for Christian teaching, I am convinced that Christian language teachers can adapt such invaluable strategies to provide a conducive classroom atmosphere for the purpose of improving the communicative competence of learners beyond the classroom and ultimately for life's responsibilities.

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IDOWU,O. . (2016). COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, 40 (), 169-169.

IDOWU,O. . "COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY" 40, no (), (2016): 169-169.

IDOWU,O. and . (2016). COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY, 40 (), pp169-169.

IDOWUO, . COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY. 2016, 40 ():169-169.

IDOWU,Olubunmi , . "COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY", 40 . (2016) : 169-169.

I.Olubunmi , "COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGIES IN THE DECALOGUE AND THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHING IN A CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY" vol.40, no., pp. 169-169, 2016.

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