Competency based instruction in EFL

Competency Base Instruction in EFL

Competency Based Language Teaching is based on the idea that knowing an abstract idea about a subject does not translate into being able to use that information. Someone may memorize irregular verbs but not actually be able to put them into a logical sentence to use in context.


You focus on objectives which you can measure by having students demonstrate skills. For instance, a goal could be that by the end of the lesson "Students will be able to use past tense when talking about their weekend."

In a communicative English course, students listen, speak, write, read, as well as evaluate, express, understand, cooperate, formulate, encourage, and interact with facts related to the target language. Students practice what they can do by using the skills from their native language. The purpose is to help students develop a second language (and the tasks emerging from this learning such as answering the phone, interacting in a conversation, or completing any printed form as questionnaires, surveys, and so on) and also to learn the necessary linguistic elements to communicate appropriately and transform the results obtained from the learning itself or the tasks completed as their own way of communicating in a second language effectively. In this way, students practice their generic skills as well as their higher order thinking skills.