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	Goal: Communicative Competence
		Language teaching in the United States is based on the idea that the goal of language acquisition is communicative competence: the ability to use the language correctly and appropriately to accomplish communication goals.
		The desired outcome of the language learning process is the ability to communicate competently, not the ability to use the language exactly as a native speaker does.
		Communicative competence is made up of four competence areas: linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic.
	www.nclrc.org /essentials/goalsmethods/goal.htm (376 words)

	Vol 35 No 2, April - June 1997 Page 16
		Communicative teaching is guided by the model put forward first by Canale and Swain in 1980 and revised by Canale in 1983.
		All four competencies are tested integratively in the writing and speaking sections, where the candidates need to produce language typically used in everyday contexts.
		A candidate also has the opportunity to demonstrate his or her strategic competence in the oral interview; here strategic competence is essential for maintaining the flow of communication when the candidate lacks a particular word or phrase, or needs to ask for clarification.
	exchanges.state.gov /forum/vols/vol35/no2/p16.htm (2915 words)

	YAACK: Advancing communicative competence
		A "dictionary" in which communicative behaviors and actions by the child, the situations in which they typically occur, and what the response should be are all written down can help different partners coordinate their interactions with the child (Reichle, 1997).
		The child is taught to communicate with gestures that are self-developed and already a part of the child’s repertoire of behaviors.
		The only way for a child to learn the power of communication, and the necessity to use it accurately, is by experiencing the consequences of his or her choices (Beukelman & Mirenda, 1992).
	aac.unl.edu /yaack/d2a.html (6440 words)

	Linguistic and Communicative Competence « PPI India - Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia di India
		Communicative competence, indeed, includes the whole of linguistics competence plus the whole of the amorphous (indefinite shape or form) range of facts included under socio-linguistic pragmatic competence (the rules and conventions for using language items in context and other factors like attitudes, values, and motivation.
		Chomsky believes that linguistic competence can be separated from the rest of communicative competence and studied in isolation but socio-linguist, like Dell Hymes believes that the notion of linguistic competence is unreal and that no significant progress in linguistics is possible without studying forms along with the ways in which they are used.
		In addition to this, basicall the linguistic competence falls under the domaint of communicative competence because communicative competence is made up of four competence areas including linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic.
	ppiindia.wordpress.com /2007/01/09/linguistic-and-communicative-competence (1854 words)

	NIH Guide: COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF USERS OF AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION (AAC) SYSTEMS
		Such research may lead to a better understanding of the impact of AAC on the development or restoration of communicative competence of individuals with the severe communication difficulties commonly seen in association with developmental or acquired disorders, such as brain injury, and diseases or disorders affecting the oral motor system.
		Communication and language development studies of children using augmentative communication have centered largely on alternative modes of communication used in conjunction with specific instructional approaches.
		The systematic identification of the communicative variables that affect perceptions of communicative competence of AAC users from both the social and personal perspectives, may be a first step.
	grants.nih.gov /grants/guide/pa-files/PA-96-032.html (1653 words)

	Knowledge, Competence And Communication
		Strategic competence consists of verbal and non-verbal strategies of communication that may be employed to compensate for communication breakdown attributable to “performance variables or to insufficient competence.” Communication strategies are of two kinds: those that are relevant, mainly to grammatical competence and those that relate more to socio - linguistic competence.
		They state that one of the many aspects of communicative competence which must be investigated, more rigorously, before a communicative approach can be implemented fully in the areas of second language teaching and testing is: development of administratively feasible classroom activities that can be used to encourage meaningful action in target language use.
		Chomsky’s view of communication, which is linked, inextricably to, and derived logically from, his pronouncements about knowledge, creativity and freedom from repressive authority, contrasts sharply with views about the purposeful nature of language.
	radicalpedagogy.icaap.org /content/issue3_3/2-walcott.html (10477 words)

	Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles
		Hymes` justifications for his development of the theory of communicative competence discussed so far are based on the language problems of disadvantaged children, communication capacity of normal children, the study of ethnography of symbolic forms, noncognitive factors such as motivation, cognitive, affective and volitive factors and educational practice.
		Hymes` other motive for his development of the theory of communicative competence on the criticism that Chomsky`s linguistic competence is a limitation in perspective is his consideration that the acquisition of competence for use can be stated in the same way as the acquisition of competence for grammar.
		There is, however, good evidence that competence for use is not part of the same developmental matrix as competence for grammar and that the acquisition of the competence for use cannot be stated in the same terms as acquisition of competence for grammar.
	www.asian-efl-journal.com /September_05_ac.php (2306 words)

	Kitao & Kitao-Testing Communicative Competence (I-TESL-J)
		Communicative language tests are intended to be a measure of how the testees are able to use language in real life situations.
		However, it is less communicative than one in which the testees are face- to-face with the interlocutor (rather than listening to a tape) and are required to produce an appropriate response.
		Communicative language tests are those which make an effort to test language in a way that reflects the way that language is used in real communication.
	iteslj.org /Articles/Kitao-Testing.html (1747 words)

	A Preliminary Study of the Nature of Communicative Competence
		Accordingly, a schema was devised for the systematic elicitation of academic communicative language performance, and this schema was applied in the assessment of the 79 adult, English-as-a-second-language students who were chosen for the study.
		In all, 158 hours of video-recorded language-interaction episodes and 12 communicative writing samples were gathered by trained interlocutors, and observations on 40 communicative competence variables (21 in an oral modality, and 19 in a written modality, of which 18 in each modality are reported here) were rated by trained evaluators.
		In turn, these competency domains were investigated for their relation to components of language proficiency as assessed by the TOEFL, TSE, and TWE tests.
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	A Theoretical Framework for Communicative Competence. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An outline is provided of the contents and boundaries of three areas of competence, or systems of knowledge, that are to be minimally included in a theory of communicative competence: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence.
		Sociolinguistic competence includes sociocultural rules for determining the social meaning and appropriateness of a single sentence or utterance; it also includes discourse rules for determining the cohesion and coherence of groups of utterances.
		Strategic competence is composed of verbal and nonverbal communicative strategies that are used to compensate for breakdowns in communication due to performance factors or to insufficient grammatical or sociolinguistic competence.
	www.eric.ed.gov /sitemap/html_0900000b80102fe4.html (180 words)

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	communicative - Articles about communicative (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Communicative Rationality is a theory or set of theories which try to explain...
		Communicative competence is a concept introduced by Dell Hymes and discussed and...
		Communicative language teaching began in Britain in the 1960s as a replacement...
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	FROM LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE TO COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: RECONSIDERING THE ROLE OF THE DIALOGUE IN THE TEACHING OF ...
		On this view of “real communication” the dialogue, as a language teaching device, must be superseded as it belongs to the realm of the prepackaged structured presentation of the oral language.
		As H. Stern observes, communicative competence “no doubt implies linguistic competence,” but also “further suggests that language teaching recognizes a social, interpersonal, and cultural dimension and attributes to it just as much importance as to the grammatical and phonological aspect” (Stern 229).
		Granted, authentic communication is not prepackaged; however, given a certain set of variables—such as specific notions and functions—the exchanges between people can be traced to reflect specific semantic patterns and it is within these parameters that they can be predicted.
	tell.fll.purdue.edu /RLA-Archive/1991/Italian-html/COLUSSI&.htm (2672 words)

	Developing classroom specific rating scales: Clarifying teacher assessment of oral communicative competence
		Instead, the main problem is making explicit assumptions regarding oral communicative competence, and demonstrating the relevance of those theoretical constructs in assessing actual samples of elicited student performance on the given oral test.
		The scales are not a theoretically complete description of communicative competence but rather a summary of the minimum criteria by which I felt the majority of performances could be fairly distinguished into three broad categories (A, B and C).
		The very complexity of the targeted domain, oral communicative competence, as well as the lack of a consensus on the matter, makes it important for the teacher engaging in oral assessment to make explicit their own grading rationale.
	www.jalt.org /test/ven_1.htm (2143 words)

	Acquiring Intercultural Communicative Competence from Textbooks: The Case of Flemish Adolescent Pupils Learning German
		The quantitative data were analyzed using SPSS software, and the qualitative data were transcribed by hand and then analyzed using a coding system that was designed to provide a summary of the information in the interview as it related to the research questions in the study.
		First, it addresses the issue of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language learning in the context of languages and cultures that have much in common and that share a common European identity.
		The author's conclusion that language teaching, and particularly language teaching materials, be directed toward improving intercultural communicative competence serves as an important reminder of the positive role of foreign language education in reducing negative stereotypes toward groups of people that dogmatic politicians exploit to mobilize people to support various causes.
	www-writing.berkeley.edu /TESL-EJ/ej22/r7.html (1082 words)

	multimedia Assessment of Social Communicative Competence
		Thus, assessing and improving the communication competence of students are issues of interest in training situations.
		Although there are many structured communication courses available for higher vocational education (Smit, 1995), there is a lack of appropriate assessment methods for measuring social-communicative competence (Smit and Van der Molen, 1996).
		This is not surprising, because of the complexity of assessment of social-communicative competence (Bellack, 1979).
	www.ucalgary.ca /~iejll/volume6/pisters.html (4571 words)

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	MarketWatch - Communicative Competence - MarketWatch Management A/S
		Communication and negotiation are inextricably linked, though it is not a foregone conclusion that a skilful communicator is a skilful negotiator - but it helps.
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	Communicative Competence
		Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance.
		Competence = innate knowledge of language as shown in diagram 1 and sections 1 and 2 below.
		Hymes expands the Chomskyan notions of grammaticality (= competence) and acceptability (= performance) into four parameters subsumed under the heading of communicative competence.
	www.deil.uiuc.edu /nppm/old-site/eil367/handouts/comcomp.html (347 words)

	Communicative competence (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the last 20 years, what has emerged from applied linguistics is that the goal of second language teaching should be communicative competence.
		This is in contrast to previous standards where grammatical competence was the priority.
		Recognition that successful communication includes more than constructing grammatical correct utterances has been influenced by the field of pragmatics and the philosophy of language concerning speech act as described in large part by John Searle and J.L. Austin.
	www.fact-index.com /c/co/communicative_competence.html (154 words)

	An Interactive Language Learning Model On the Internet: Theory and Initial Design Specifications-ºÃÍøÕ¾µ¼º½ (Site not responding. Last check: )
		So far, most language educators believe that the focus should be on the development of communicative competence on the part of the learner.
		Other than merely teaching the forms of a language as was done for centuries, communicative competence includes a wide array of related elements contributing to successful language learning.
		All of these aspects of language competence need to be considered in learning a language for the purpose of effective communication.
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	PuntoEduForum - Communicative competence? (Site not responding. Last check: )
		When Paola Ciati (24/4) identifies communicative competence with the language abilities and knowledge of a native speaker (which cannot be attained by our students) and distinguishes that from efficient, effective communication, which is within their reach, she touches on an extremely important point.
		However, to understand and to be understood is attainable, and that ability which Paola calls effective communication is what I would call communicative competence.
		Communicative Language Teaching really does include attention to form and accuracy, so it seems to me the two paths that Sonja has identified are in pursuit of the same objective: communicative competence.
	puntoedu.indire.it /neoassunti/vb/printthread.php?threadid=825 (326 words)

	(179) * Structures of Second Language Acquisition: Ego-centric expatriate networks and communicative competence [Ripley ...
		Research indicates that acquiring communicative competence is a complex, non-linear, dynamic process.
		Understanding the social context of communicative competence is therefore of central importance in determining not only how competence is acquired, but also whether there are significant transitional social structures that can be facilitated for the expatriate.
		Specifically, the article details case study findings on network composition, tie strength, density, and centrality, and their association with host communicative competence and socio-linguistic identity.
	www.insna.org /SunbeltAbstracts/Abstracts/Smith_Ripley.html (223 words)

	Cogprints - Communicative competence and the architecture of the mind/brain
		Communicative competence and the architecture of the mind/brain
		Tirassa, Maurizio (1999) Communicative competence and the architecture of the mind/brain.
		Rather than dwelling on the many technicalities of the various theories of communication that have been advanced, I focus on the different conceptions of the nature and the architecture of the mind/brain that underlie them.
	cogprints.org /3584 (1080 words)

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