Reflections regarding the need for the development of conversational competence in Cuban professionals

Abstract

Introduction: communicative competences among professionals along with the conversational ones are not always in agreement with their intellectual development. The scientific problem is given by: how to continue developing conversational and professional competences in university students? Objective: to analyze epistemologically the main theoretical elements defined in the national and international literature on the category of conversational competence and its importance into the context of the training of professionals. Method: a descriptive study was carried out from a bibliographic review and from a theoretical point of view the methods used were: historical-logical, analysis-synthesis and inductive-deductive, which allowed to analyze the conceptions concerning this topic from different approaches and accomplish a new contextualized definition of conversational and professional competence. Results: in this work, relevant concepts and theories are systematized which take into account, within the communicative competence the conversational competence, based on the importance of conversation as a universal human activity, which assume a set of knowledge, skills, attitudes and skills going beyond the linguistic components to establish and maintain an effective conversation in the professional field. Conclusion: the need to become aware of the complexity involved in the development of conversational competence and of assuming it as a basic professional competence in all profiles of Cuban Higher Education, incorporating their continuing awareness to the syllabus of the different studies, since it is so necessary for the accomplishment of the individuals in the interaction process from the different contexts of professional performance.

Keywords

• COMPETENCIA PROFESIONAL
• EDUCACIÓN PROFESIONAL
• COMUNICACIÓN SOCIAL