... development of communicative competence in everyday interactions. The other cohort had encountered English mainly informally and brought high levels of multilingual communicative competence, mostly from Africa. Yet, they found their English devalued by their low levels of literacy, limited formal education...

... their first language. Although there are many children who acquire one language at a time, children’s exposure to more than one language in their primary language acquisition has for centuries been the norm in many parts of the world. language mixing code-switching competence performance Communicative...

... of stigma by devoting particular attention to the process of managing how value is assigned, claimed, and denied in social interactions, rather than focusing on categories of stigmatization. Placing ethnographic practice and folkloristic theories of communicative competence in conversation...

...A common assumption is that communicative competence simply flows from some possibly innate by-product of vocal development. Understanding the dimensions of competence, or what in this chapter is called “communicative pragmatics,” can be summed up as answering the “wh” questions, the “who,” “what...

.... communicative competence miscommunication misrecognition Maurice Blanchot and the impossibility and possibility of literature walter benjamin once observed that our human gift for seeing resemblances “is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion … to become and behave like someone...

... of behavior games (cultural games, group games, couple games), and conversation games, and considers the idea that communicative competence may be viewed in formal terms as a metalevel property which controls first-level inferences. Carlson L Levin J A Mann W C Moore J A Wittgenstein L Conversation game...

...This chapter, which discusses the evolution, development, and decay of communicative competence in the context of cognitive pragmatics and its theoretical aspects, makes a distinction between competence and performance in communication, and suggests that the sole proof of the existence of a given...

...This chapter looks at scholarship on communities and their relationships with conceptualizations of communicative competence (CC). It is argued that the ubiquitous nature of one-to-many participation frameworks such as school classrooms (the teacher is the “one” and the students are the “many...

..., than their hearing classmates. Quality and quantity of peer friendships are also often less well evaluated. Major issues are deficient communicative competence and withdrawn behavior of the DHH youth, as well as negative attitudes and lack of knowledge about hearing loss in hearing peers. To increase...

..., experience, use, and impact of assessment constructs across diverse stakeholder worlds. test construct communicative competence language ability assessing speaking language testing language assessment A construct can be considered two things: whatever an assessment is designed to find...

... of communicative competence (2008), its incorporation in the assessment infrastructures (e.g., rating scales) which elicit the operationalized constructs of either spoken or written language assessment has been minimal. Typically, formulaic language appears in rating scales as a characteristic of early L2 learning...

... competence and of the related sociolinguistic areas of language inequality and deficit link to the ways language choice plays an important gatekeeping role in professional communities. attitude communicative competence gender Labov William language ecology sociolinguistics speech community accent...

.... For scholars of language, gender, and sexuality, this ideally entails developing communicative competence as gendered and sexual subjects: we learn how people talk, and don’t talk, about gender and sex. This chapter describes how long-term participant-observation, the core ethnographic research method, allowed...

... communication oral behaviors communicative performance communicative competence Wherein Ask tackles the necessity for and the problem of communicating with Creature directly. He poses the problem of communication as a problem of interpreting Creature's oral behavior in ways that are consistent...

... theory classrooms cognitive development dispositions children’s play and language skills sociability children’s play and childcare programs Keywords cultural community social competence social play attachment relationships social climate emotion regulation communicative competence...

... for policy making Visvanathan S communicative competence Dryzek J Webler T citizens' juries experiential knowledge local knowledge Parkinson J Smith G African cultures Barnes M and Gell C et al Barnes M Skelcher C et al Yanow D Harvey J Tronto J Fischer F Davies C et al Nussbaum M...

...Subdivided into different categories of formality, Lowth's letters are analysed in this chapter to describe his communicative competence. Depending on the nature of his relationship with his addressees, Lowth's language (spelling, lexis) is shown to vary, to the extent that his use of non-standard...

...This chapter builds on the ideas of knowledging, community, communicative competence, and conviviality discussed in previous chapters. In examining the talk of another group of sojourners, it is evident that they all have competence to comprehend, evaluate, and appropriate semiotic forms associated...

... to semiotic change, the revaluing of codeswitching practices, and the engendering of particular types of communicative competence in a population. It is argued that by understanding the mechanisms that engender this competence, we can then come to a more nuanced understanding of people’s interactional...