Communication Arts and Ken Lee

My college classmates were passing this video around cyberspace and I have got to pass it around, too.

Many are saying that English is a strange language. But for many, the language is their ticket to fame. In my recent post, I mentioned that the average Filipino student will have been exposed to the English language and its technicalities for 10 years. We are lucky to have an L3 (3rd Language). Because of their skill in understanding English they have developed their own language.

If we would like to intellectualize this the concept would be derived from Communicative Competence.

Communicative Competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and discussed and redefined by many authors. Hymes' original idea was that speakers of a language have to have more than grammatical competence in order to be able communicate effectively in a language; they also need to know how language is used by members of a speech community to accomplish their purposes. (Source)

Of course, the grammar were way off but they did accomplish their purpose. They're in YouTube and are stars - in their own right.



You might want to check out the older post here.