Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study investigates the impact of communicative competence on second language learners at Adaikalamatha College, Vallam, Thanjavur. The present study begins with an Introduction, comprehensive literature review, followed by an exploration of tasks and their role in assisting second language learners. The study also provides a brief profile of the participants from the aforementioned college. There are 50 non- English major participants are chosen from four departments such as (BSc-Computer science, BSc-Statistics, BSc-Bio Chemistry and BA-Economics) at Rajah Serfoji Government College, Thanjavur. Evaluating the second language learners’ performance, the criteria considered include complexity, grammatical acceptability, fluency, discourse competence, pronunciation, volume, and overall communicative competence. This paper emphasis on communicative competence and fluency, this study assigns greater weightage to these components. It concludes, the experimental group students got good marks and their communicative competence improved to some extent.
Author: Dr.M.Balaganapathy
Institution: Bharathidasan University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4409444091