Developing communicative competence in English for Professional Purposes at the postgraduate level
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competencia comunicativa, nivel de posgrado, estrategia didáctica, experimento pedagógicoAbstract
The knowledge of the English language is an imperative for university graduates, as an adequate competence in this language influences their suitable performance as professionals. This paper aims at providing the results of a research that has been carried out at “José Antonio Echeverría” Technological University of Havana in order to develop the engineers and architects´ communicative competence in English for Professional Purposes at the postgraduate level. Surveys were applied to engineers and architects, as well as to experts in the curricular board so as to confirm the problem observed in practice. Besides, a documentary study was performed, which provided information about the object investigated. A didactic strategy was designed as a solution to the problem under study. It was implemented through a pedagogical experiment. The results of the pedagogical tests applied at the beginning and at the end of the pedagogical experiment
showed that the didactic strategy designed was effective for developing the engineers and architects´ communicative competence in English for Professional Purposes in the postgraduate level, at “José A. Echeverría” Technological
University of Havana.
Key words: communicative competence, postgraduate level, didactic strategy.
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