Group work is encouraged to improve communicative competence, while supporting a more conducive and cooperative class environment.

Being a communicator, having what Hymes calls communicative competence, involves much more.

Which of the questions below will reveal most about the reader's communicative competence?

I would argue that no syllabus, however conceived and designed, can produce a communicative competence.

To be considered part of a speech community, one must have a communicative competence.

The child's greater knowledge and communicative competence permit the adult to reduce her physical directiveness.

For others, communicative competence or even basic communication skills could be a goal.

An organization's effectiveness is also dependent on its communicative competence and ethics.

Along with ethics and communicative competence, members in that particular group can finally achieve their intended goals.

Describing practical knowledge of how language is used: communicative competence.