Discussion Post #7

So far I’ve learned Hangul and I can read Korean now, and I’ve expanded my vocabulary quite a bit in the basic words realm. After reading H.D. Brown’s work, I realized that my current learning plan places emphasis on organizational competence and sociolinguistic competence. I think these are important parts of communicative competence so my learning plan seems good. However, a key aspect of communicative competence that I haven’t given a lot of importance to is strategic competence. While building up my organizational competence and sociolinguistic competence is important, it is also very slow, and I need to keep practicing the language everyday without knowing everything about this. This requires strategic competence. Knowing how I can use the words I currently know to convey a message about something outside my vocabulary is a skill that I need to develop and it falls under strategic competence. I’m going to try to modify my learning plan a bit to include goals that advance my strategic competence.

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