ABSTRACT
Communicative competence is an essential language skill, the ability to adjust language use according to specific contexts and to employ knowledge and strategies for successful communication.
This unique text offers a multidisciplinary, critical, state-of-the-art research overview for this skill in second language learners. Expert contributors from around the world lay out the history of the field, then explore a variety of theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and empirical findings, and authoritatively set the agenda for future work.
With a variety of helpful features like discussion questions, recommended further reading, and suggestions for practice, this book will be an invaluable resource to students and researchers of applied linguistics, education, psychology, and beyond.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|18 pages
Introduction
part I|57 pages
Theoretical overviews of communicative competence
part II|55 pages
Methodological tools for researching communicative competence
chapter 7|17 pages
Corpus-linguistic and computational methods for analyzing communicative competence
part III|86 pages
Applications