Communicative competence in english classes at academic

---

ICSRAS-2021 
International Conference on Scientific Research and Advancements in Sciences
Hosted from Hamburg, Germany 
http://euroasiaconference.com July25
th
2021 
126 
THE IMPLEMENTING OF MOVIE ACTIVITIES TO DEVELOP PUPILS’ 
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE IN ENGLISH CLASSES AT ACADEMIC 
LYCEUMS 
 
Akhmadalieva Khosiyatposhsho Abdukhayotovna, 
Teacher, 1
st
year PhD student, Uzbek State University of World Languages 
 
Abstract: This article reveals about creating English environment through movie activities in English 
classes that involves not only the language itself, but also social interaction, critical thinking and emotions 
that develop pupils’ communicative competence at academic lyceums.
 
Key words: Movie activities, English classes, communicative competence, academic lyceum, verbal 
communication. 
Nowadays, the English language is a principal means of communication around the globe that 
everyone makes attempt to acquire English to be equal the pace of life. In Uzbekistan, at all education 
establishments English is taught through using innovative pedagogical technologies. More specifically, at 
academic lyceums pupils learn English to get placed to International Universities and to be competitive, 
artful staff in the future. At academic lyceums, in traditional teaching, pupils are often introduced new 
grammatical structures and subsequently trained to practice them while the teacher is correcting their 
mistakes that lead mastering the forms theoretically without being able to use them actively in 
communication. This may result in mastering the forms theoretically without being able to use them 
actively in speaking. As scholars Maley and Duff continue: “Much language teaching is done through 
structures or so-called situations in the belief that once a sentence has been correctly formulated a use can 
always be found for it. First comes form, then meaning” [1]. They criticize this approach because it results 
in getting learners used to “making sentences fit into structural molds” which they illustrate with the 
following simile:
To use an analogy, such a learner is like an architect who designs a building before inspecting the site on 
which it is to be placed. There may be nothing structurally wrong with the design, but if the building is 
five stores high with a stone façade, and is intended to fill the gap between two steel-and-glass skyscrapers, 
the architect will clearly have to put in some overtime! For this reason, in modern teaching, most teachers 
eliminate traditional way of teaching, they are on a constant quest for variation to their repertoire in order 
to maintain pupils' interest in the classroom. Various activities have values that create real English 
atmosphere to improve pupils’ communication skills, as well as, their self-esteem, language skills and 
other abilities to express themselves by using their own creativity, thus pupils’ communicative competence 
is developed step by step. 
One of the feasible communicative activities is movie activities that can develop pupils’ social skills 
and make them attain more cultural knowledge in an interesting way through a movie context. Moreover, 
movie activities can bestow equally pupils’ benefits that are required in real life. As scholars Neelands and 
Goodle consider movie “the direct experience that is shared when pupils imagine and behave as if they 

---

ICSRAS-2021 
International Conference on Scientific Research and Advancements in Sciences
Hosted from Hamburg, Germany 
http://euroasiaconference.com July25
th
2021 
127 
were other than themselves in some other place at another time” [2]. Besides, in movie activities genuine 
communication in which the participants do not take turns in a regular pattern as “most ordinary 
conversations contain hesitations, interruptions, distractions, misunderstandings and even silences”. Other 
important features of communication are emotional involvement: “a conversation could evoke the whole 
spectrum of feelings from violent anger to tenderest love in the speakers” and body language: “facial 
expressions, gestures, the positions of our limbs, and non/verbal sounds, which can be as eloquent as 
words” [3]. Movie activities can bring the opportunity to communicate naturally in the classroom that 
develop communicative competence because it provides the language learners with meaningful context for 
speaking and listening. It covers several components that create this context :
Setting - the physical surroundings, for example restaurant, airport, station. Pupils can communicate 
in real life circumstances due to implementation into practice in the classroom