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ERIC Number: EJ214440
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1979-Oct
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Elements of Communicative Competence.
Williams, Eddie
English Language Teaching Journal, v34 n1 p18-21 Oct 1979
Discusses the four areas involved in communicative competence (knowledge of mechanical rules, meaningful rules, appropriacy, and nonlinguistic conventions) and to what extent it is possible or desirable to teach communicative competence to nonnative speakers of English. (CFM)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Objectives, English (Second Language), Grammar, Language Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Pronunciation, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics, Vocabulary
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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