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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew Kanwit , Megan SolonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.380kg ISBN: 9780367750237ISBN 10: 0367750236 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 30 December 2022 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Historical overview, key constructs, and recent developments in the study of communicative competence Matthew Kanwit and Megan Solon Part 1: Theoretical overviews of communicative competence 2. Generative considerations of communicative competence Alan Juffs 3. Sociolinguistic approaches to communicative competence Kimberly L. Geeslin and Stacey Hanson 4. Sociocultural considerations of communicative competence Matthew E. Poehner Part II: Methodological tools for researching communicative competence 5. Investigating communicative competence in ethnographic research Rebecca Lurie Starr 6. Real-time psycholinguistic measures of communicative competence Jill Jegerski and Sara Fernández Cuenca 7. Corpus-linguistic and computational methods for analyzing communicative competence: contributions from usage-based approaches Stefan Th. Gries Part III: Applications: How do learners show communicative competence? 8. Interlanguage pragmatics as communicative competence Minh Thi Thuy Nguyen 9. Applying a communicative competence framework to the study and teaching of second language writing Charlene Polio and D. Philip Montgomery 10. Computer-assisted language learning and communicative competence Glenn Stockwell and Yurika Ito 11. Assessing communicative competence Luke Harding, Susy Macqueen, and John Pill 12. Looking forward: Future directions in the study of communicative competence Megan Solon and Matthew Kanwit IndexReviewsThis volume achieves unprecedented levels of coherence, epistemological complementarity, and currency in the exploration of communicative competence. It offers a vibrant tour de force through theories, methods, and diverse spheres of application. A must read for all interested in understanding this construct at the heart of the field of second language acquisition! Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA The notion of communicative competence is so deeply entrenched in our collective understanding of L2 development. Yet many of us, if prompted on the topic, might respond like the fish that asks What is water? . Flounder no longer! Kanwit and Solon bring together in this volume works by a world-class cast of contributors that deftly address the theory-methods-practice trifecta as it pertains to communicative competence. The editors' and authors' various takes on this topic are as refreshing as they are informed, as current as they are diverse in perspective. Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University, USA This volume achieves unprecedented levels of coherence, epistemological complementarity, and currency in the exploration of communicative competence. It offers a vibrant tour de force through theories, methods, and diverse spheres of application. A must read for all interested in understanding this construct at the heart of the field of second language acquisition! Lourdes Ortega, Georgetown University, USA The notion of communicative competence is so deeply entrenched in our collective understanding of L2 development. Yet many of us, if prompted on the topic, might respond like the fish that asks What is water? . Flounder no longer! Kanwit and Solon bring together in this volume works by a world-class cast of contributors that deftly address the theory-methods-practice trifecta as it pertains to communicative competence. The editors' and authors' various takes on this topic are as refreshing as they are informed, as current as they are diverse in perspective. Luke Plonsky, Northern Arizona University, USA This engaging, original, scholarly, and insightful book updates the concept of communicative competence, clarifying and deepening the definition, description, and analysis of this crucial concept in second language acquisition. It covers a multiplicity of aspects of the area and deftly and authoritatively presents theories, methodologies, and applications. This is a significant contribution to the field, and a must read for both established scholars and those new to the field, with contributions from distinguished researchers from a wide variety of research areas. Vera Regan, University College Dublin, Ireland Author InformationMatthew Kanwit is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. His research on communicative competence and functional approaches to L2 acquisition has appeared in Applied Linguistics, Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Language Learning, The Modern Language Journal, and the Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Sociolinguistics. Megan Solon is Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Indiana University, USA. She researches the acquisition of phonetics/phonology, including sociolinguistically variable features. She is co-editor of the Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics book series and co-author of The Acquisition of Spanish as a Second Language: Foundations and New Developments. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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