00000ctm a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613924655 Buklod 20221102153736.0 m o u ta 221102s2019 ph a grb |||0 ||eng | (iLib)UPD-00533071794 DEDUC rda eng LG 996 2019 E35 M37 Martinez, Julius C. author. Disinventing/Reinventing competence in everyday communication practices of Japanese and non-Japanese residents in Nigata City, Japan Julius C. Martinez ; dissertation adviser, Romylyn A. Metila ; dissertation reader, Menelea M. Chiu ; Eufracio C. Abaya, Lourdes R. Baetiong, Ma. Isabel P. Martin, Ruanni Tupas, critic/reader members. Quezon City College of Education, University of the Philippines Diliman 2019. xiii, 372 leaves illustrations (some color) 28 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Dissertation (Doctor of Philosophy in Education - Language Education)--University of the Philippines, Diliman May 2019. Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-353). Competence is the kernel of language education. It structures language policies, instruction, assessments, materials, and curriculum. It affects the ways the teachers think about their students. It also touches a number of burning questions teachers often grapple with, such as: What does it mean to be competent? How can it be taught and learned? Because competence has a fundamental role in teaching and learning languages, unpacking it should not be taken for granted. By unpacking competence, the present study addresses a number of gaps. First, prevailing theories of competence are insufficient to explain the ways people with diverse linguistic resources communicate. Second, traditional scholarship about competence is limited to questions of practical efficiency in teaching and learning. Lastly, current understanding of competence view language from a colonialist mindset that language is bounded, mentalist, discrete and neutral entity. The present study attempts to fill in these gaps through disinventing and reinventing competence. Through disinvention, the study departs from a notion of competence with colonialist perspectives. Through reinvention, the present study goes beyond traditional scholarship about, and generates alternative understandings of competence. As a project of disinvention, the study gives emphasis to the social and political aspects of competence. Research tradition about competence is concerned about relatively stable forms, grammars, structures, systems, and cognition tied up to discrete, separate languages. Communication. Communicative competence. Communication and culture. Metila, Romylyn A. dissertation adviser. Chiu, Menelea M. dissertation reader. Abaya, Eufracio C. critic/reader member. Baetiong, Lourdes R.. critic/reader member. Martin, Ma. Isabel P. critic/reader member. Tupas, Ruanni critic/reader member. Thesis FI UP UPD DEDUC LG 996 2019 E35 M37 Thesis