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Defining communicative competence

There is a high level of agreement among theoreticians today on the basic content of the definition of communicative competence. However, it has been often pointed out in the literature on language testing that before undertaking research on communicative competence it is essential to examine and clearly determine the construct of communicative competence, namely, to formulate a definition which will enable a simple operationalization of that construct? This paper presents in brief the process of defining communicative competence which started in the late sixties in the 20th century. Several important definitions and models of communicative competence are presented in two separate sections. On the basis of these definitions and models, there is a discussion in the final section on the manner of defining communicative competence.

communicative competence; models of communicative competence; definition of communicative competence

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