Teaching Language Skills in Competency-Based Approach: Practical Guidelines

Abstract

Since the introduction of competency-based teaching into the Algerian English language syllabuses in 2005, teachers have been supplied with a big deal of theory about this instructional model, without practical applications for day-to-day classroom instruction. This study focuses on practical issues of the competency system through a concrete illustration of the teaching of the four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing).  Essentially, the teaching of these basics is embedded in life skills, and their practice is carried out through the prior teaching of the competency pre-requisites of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Next, an authentic global task is presented to learners to harmoniously reinvest their newly acquired knowledge, skills and attitudes to solve a problem.