Effectiveness of educational intervention on communicative competence in pre-service teachers

INTRODUCTION. Communicative competence is essential for any teacher. In order to analyze teachers' rate of knowledge and acquisition, it is necessary to reflect on the components that make it up. The present study is part of an extensive research project that analyzes the training of future Primary Education teachers regarding linguistic and technological competences at three Spanish universities (Granada, Jaen and Oviedo). METHOD. For this purpose, a descriptive and quasi-experimental, pre-test and post-test study with a non-equivalent control group of 380 students is carried out. RESULTS. In the pretest, re-sults show deficiencies in the control and experimental groups concerning students' training in communicative competence at pre-university levels. Also, it is observed how the experimental group improve thanks to the application of the Affective e-Learning+ program. Students in the experimental group state that the program improved their interaction with students from other universities; that they shared experiences and the online program has made it easier for them to learn about important topics for their training, using times and spaces that did not interrupt their study. DISCUSSION. After the application of the online program "Affective elearning+", improvements are reported for the different criteria of the Sociolinguistic, Morphosyntactic, Pragmatic and Orthographic sub-competences and linguistic register, which integrate communicative competence.