Sambodhi
(UGC Care Journal)
ISSN: 2249-6661
Vol-43, No.-03 (IV) July-September (2020)
164
Alsaawi, 2016). Building up the necessary skills in active language learning is an important feature for creating the
cognitive ability of the learners. As the act of learning manipulates the process of education, it facilitates the learner
to engulf with adequate knowledge and substance to communicate effectively. A learner needs to seek sufficient
awareness on structures, content and contextual knowledge and should be facilitated with the tactics of practical
communication. Being a proficient user of language, one has to be inculcated with adequate knowledge, skills and
competencies to perform in target communicative contexts.
Cognitive, affective and psychological factors contribute a great deal in shaping the language abilities and skills
of an individual. Competency in communication can be an inborn skill to some people. It can also be developed as
an effective skill in due course while practicing communication in terms of real and virtual contexts. As it is always
generalized that language is the prime factor for developing communication skills, it can be assumed that
communication exists through language. Being competency is the natural instinct and backbone for all the types of
communication, it is acknowledged as the ultimate goal of interpersonal communication, group communication,
mass communication and even massline communication too. Competency in communication envisages the
potentiality of an individual to interact with enormous understanding and belief in any personal, social, formal, and
technical contexts. As language is the major factor that triggers and reinstates the process of communication, the
structural, functional and interactional elements of language are entitled as a great source and model in determining
the genres and tasks of both the forms of oral and written communication. Structural, functional and interactional
aspects of language stand as an essential factor in influencing communicative competence. Effective English
communication skills are basically oriented towards acquiring the mastery of the language and also exercising in
developing the positive characteristic traits of personality. It stabilizes both verbal and non-verbal communication
skills of the individual. The nonverbal cues imply the nature of communication in real interactions. As the visual
perception of the physique reflects attitudes and behaviours of the individual, the whole personality, intention,
character and conduct of an individual can be better assumed with the notions of speech and gesture.
The solemnity and expressionistic language can be sought through vivid approaches and styles of
communication. Pragmatics plays a distinctive role in real and practical communication. The intended meaning of
the speaker can be revealed through symbolic and paralinguistic features. Hence the written form of language should
sustain the universal standard, whereas the oral form is entirely governed by paralinguistic cues in varied situational
and environmental contexts that it need not be the same as it is in the written form. In speaking, the intention of the
speaker could be easily revealed through nonverbal cues. In writing, the intention of the speaker is revealed through
direct or indirect expressions given in words. Language check is desirable but still the understanding of message
stands primary and the accurate use of grammar remains secondary.
Language proficiency and communicative competency could be developed by practicing productive and
receptive skills. The structural components of language like grammar, lexis and phonology are thoroughly
emphasized for acquiring language proficiency. It is widely acknowledged that to know a language is to know the
grammar, lexis and phonology of that language. Language cannot be literally displayed without grammar, lexis,
pronunciation and style. Grammar and vocabulary chunks are the core elements that contribute in framing and
presenting the thoughts and ideas of an individual. If a language learner is not able to present his ideas, the basic
issue is that the learner lacks adequate knowledge to display the information and he/she is not ingrained with
appropriate linguistic skills. Hence, language expressions need to be polished with the appropriate elements of
grammar, lexis and phonology.
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