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Language Communication and Communicative Competence: A View from Contemporary Classrooms
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Leung, Constant; Lewkowicz, Jo – Language and Education, 2013
In this paper, we examine some of the tenets of the current conceptualisations of communicative competence. Drawing on the empirical data collected in linguistically diverse university classrooms, we show that meaning-making in social interaction is considerably more complex and fluid than is envisaged in theoretical models of communicative…
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Intercultural Communication