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The Role of Communicative Competence in Fostering Better Graduate Students

Jerry Roble

Discipline: Communications

 

Abstract:

This article examines the level of communicative competence (which involved grammatical, lexical, sociolinguistic, and oral competence) of the graduate students of Capitol University (hereafter CU).1 Likewise, it identifies the factors that influence their communicative competence. Employing descriptive-correlational method of research and measures of correlations, this article is based on an evaluation made with 86 graduate students in terms of their written and spoken communicative competencies.