Basic Competences In Primary Education

1. THE BASIC COMPETENCES IN PRIMARY EDUCATION
THE STUDY OF A FOREIGN LANGUAGE CONTRIBUTES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE IN A DIRECT MANNER, IN THE SAME SENSE THE MOTHER LANGUAGE DOES. LEARNING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IS SOON PROFITABLE IF WE ADD THINKING IN DEPTH ABOUT IT, SO THAT EACH STUDENT IDENTIFIES HOW TO LEARN BETTER. THAT IS THE REASON OF INTRODUCING ASPECIFIC SECTION THAT HAS TO DO WITH THINKING ABOUT OUR OWN LEARNING PROCESS, WHICH CONTRIBUTES TO THE COMPETENCE OF LEARNING HOW TO LEARN.
This thought also encourages personal autonomy and initiative, as it prepares students to make progress in the knowledge and use of that language by themselves. The competences we are talking about are in direct connection with the processing of informationand digital competition. Information and communications technologies offer the possibility of communicating in real time anywhere in the world as well as a simple and immediate access to an information flow that is increasing every day. The knowledge of a foreign language offers the possibility of accessing that universal information and communication, essential to the fulfilment of a personalrealization and the exercise of our civil rights. In this way, this area contributes largely to the development of social and civic competence. Learning a foreign language implies the knowledge of the different communities of speakers of that language. This kind of learning, focused in an appropriate manner at school, should lead to an interest in learning about other cultures and interact with otherpeople, speakers or learners of that language, encouraging respect and integration.
Finally, although to a lesser extent, this area helps in the development of the cultural and artistic competence through the introduction of some texts and literary models adapted to this level and reflecting excellence in the use of language.
Basic Competences come from the necessity to establishthe improvement of people’s capacities in order to act adequately and efficiently making it necessary to centre the curriculum in the basic competences to accomplish the different learning’s of transversal understanding.
To centre in the competences makes pupils integrate in their learning process, putting into relation the different types of contents and using them in an effective way and indifferent situations and contexts.
We understand as competence the capacity to put into practice in an integrate manner and in different contexts and situations, the knowledge, the abilities and the personal attitudes acquired. The concept of competence includes the knowledge (theory knowledge) as well as the abilities (practical or application knowledge) and the attitudes (personalcompromises), including the knowing of how to do, how to apply and how to be.
The principal characteristics of the basic competences are:
▪ To promote the development of the capacities; putting more emphasis on the development of capacities than the assimilation of the contents even though these are always present when materializing the learning process.
▪ Taking intoaccount the application character of the learning process. A competent person is one who is capable of resolving problems related to his environment.
▪ They are based on their dynamic character. The competences are developed in a progressive manner and can be acquired in different places and situations.
▪ They are based on its interdisciplinary or transversal character. Theyintegrate various learning’s from various disciplines.
▪ They are a meeting point between quality and equity. They pretend to guarantee an education that responds to the necessities of the times we are living in (quality) and to be acquired by all pupils in order to be used as a common base for all citizens (equity).
According to the LOE, there are two groups of basic competences...