Publications

Publication details [#43500]

Leung, C. 2005. Convivial communication: recontextualizing communicative competence. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 15 (2) : 119–144.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | context | contextualization | foreign language teaching | language of wider communication

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper on communicative competence and language teaching argues that English language teaching has to take into account real-world social, cultural and linguistic developments in current conditions and to reconsider a series of reformulated ethnographic sensibilities.