Communicative Grammar and Communicative Competence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23730948 |
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| Authors | R Kern (0000-0001-9138-5505), Claire Kramsch (0000-0003-3456-099X) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-07 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal1433.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4406151513 |
| ISBN | 9781405198431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
This chapter explores grammar from multiple perspectives: as an abstract set of mental rules that shape language performance, or conversely, as a by‐product of discourse, or as a dynamic interaction among message, code, and context (which we refer to as “communicative grammar”). It then considers implications of these different views of grammar for the ways we conceive of communicative competence and educational goals for language learners. The evolution of the notion of communicative competence is traced from the 1970s to the present, with emphasis on the influence of cross‐cultural pragmatics, conversational analysis, discourse studies, and critical discourse analysis. These influences have led to an ecological grammar of language use that operates on multiple scales—from the microcosm of individual conversational encounters to larger geopolitical exchanges between collective entities and their political representatives. Our understandings of communicative competence are further complicated by the Internet, racial and gendered identity claims, political power struggles, and the use of digital algorithms to manipulate information and behavior. Notions such as translanguaging , multimodality , inclusive and non‐binary language , algorithmic awareness , and symbolic competence have now become central to knowing how to communicate with people from different languages and cultures. The third section of the chapter presents implications for educational practice, tracing movements from a pedagogy of correctness to a pedagogy of discourse/context relations that puts linguistic structures in relation with social and cultural discourses and beliefs, social and historical events in relation with their representations in various modalities, and discourse genres in relation with one another.
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Communicative Competence
Beyond Repair
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The symbolic dimensions of the intercultural
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Theoretical Bases of Communicative Approaches to Second Language Teaching and Testing
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