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Cook, Vivian – Language, Culture and Curriculum, 1995
Discusses the tendency in second-language (L2) pedagogy to make fallacious comparisons between multicompetent L2 learners and monoglot speakers of the target language. The article describes the principal elements of multicompetence and presents a number of their implications for the construction of syllabi and examinations and the development of…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), College Students, Comparative Analysis, Course Descriptions
Van de Craen, Pete – 1980
A study was made of aspects of communicative competence in a diglossic situation. Communicative competence in this situation is regarded as an interaction process between speech diversities. This report covers the first stage of a longer study in which there was an attempt to link attitudinal factors with linguistic components in particular…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages), Dialects