English Tasks to Develop Students' Communicative Competence

This book is a kind of research. It is about the analysis of the tasks in the textbook. The data source of this analysis is the tasks from the English Textbook entitled "When English Rings A Bell¿. The tasks are analyzed by the theory of communicative competence by Celce-Murcia et al. The writer describes that there are four components of communicative competence. The English tasks found in the textbook that are designed to develop students¿ linguistic competence are writing or creating sentences, paragraph, the journal, invitation card, greeting card, neat and accurate handwriting using the punctuation marks and spelling of the word correctly. The tasks that develop students¿ sociocultural competence are writing the dialogues by using polite words, saying the speakers sentences correctly and clearly. The tasks that develop students¿ actional competence are playing the roles about making introduction, accepting and declining invitation, daily activities, giving information, describing, and explaining. The tasks that develop students¿ discourse competence are writing down the short texts, talking about the story and writing down the expressions to complete the dialogue.