Benefits of exploiting authentic materials for developing sociolinguistic competence

Being a competent user of target language includes mastery sociolinguistic appropriateness and cultural repertoire alongside linguistic pragmatic competencies. The article is based on the results an ongoing research project that seeks to explore implications communicative teaching at secondary schools in local context. reports university students’ findings related development competence, gained utilising excerpting examples natural English. An analysis achieved stimulated insight into real culture, which was later reflected performances. Contemporary literary prose offers enough authentic material discover its benefits for developing awareness repertoire. presents can encourage English teachers use materials their classes case they have not discovered relevance culture acquisition. Keywords: Communication, repertoire, English, sociolinguistic;