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Key Competences
Educational reform, following the recommendations of the European Parliament, UNESCO and the OECD, amongst other organisations, is based upon the acquisition of key competences for lifelong learning that allow students to achieve full personal, social and professional development.
Following these recommendations, the curriculum incorporates and conceptualises the term competence as the ability to perform various tasks appropriately in response to complex demands. The competence involves the application, in an integrated way, of a combination of skills, knowledge and other social and behavioural components that combine together to achieve a ‘know-how’ that the student is able to apply to a variety of academic, social and professional contexts.
Bearing in mind the recommendations on key skills for life-long learning by the European Parliament and Council, the Spanish education system has developed a range of skills, incorporating them into the curriculum. These skills are referred to as key competences and are the skills that everyone needs for personal fulfilment and development, active citizenship, social inclusion and employment.
The curriculum identifies seven key competences and describes the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are essentially linked to each competence:
a. LinguisticCommunication(LC)
The competence in linguistic communication is really the one that is developed in the English class. Its main focus is have students interact with others in the foreign language in different types of communicative situations.
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