Students' journey on learning: EFL students' communicative competences

Abstract

Communicative performances are highly demanded competence for language learners especially in 21st century language learning goals. Due to the globalization of English, the learners' performances in communication becomes essentials. This current study aims to scrutinize the students' journey on learning English in 21st century, specifically on their communication competences. A male and a female students are selected purposively because of their comprehensive progress of the journey. The data were gathered for 20 weeks, two meetings each week. In order to collect more reliable data, teachers' diaries, class observation as well as students' interview are deployed for narrative inquiry method. Using thematic content analysis, the results revealed that the most dominant aspect playing roles on the communicative competence owned by students after communicative performances run well. The implication of this study is the recommendation for teaching and learning process on 21st century at university level.