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Revista Científica de la UCSA
On-line version ISSN 2409-8752
Abstract
DEL PUERTO M, LG. Development of communicative competences and higher education: New proposals for teaching communication to university students. Rev. ciente. UCSA [online]. 2014, vol.1, n.1, pp.84-87. ISSN 2409-8752.
The purpose of this review article is to explain the importance of communication skills for the reception and production of texts in academia. It is thought to offer an introduction to the concept of academic literacy that emerged a decade ago as a proposal to face the reading and writing problems of university students. The article starts describing the concept of communicative competences and ends showing the contributions of academic literacy, no longer understood asa state thatis reachedonce andfor all, butas a processthat extendsover time.
Keywords : competence; structuralism; communicative approach; academic literacy.