Do dialogues enhance communicative competence?
Needless to say, the importance of communicative competence in learning a language has been put forth by Hymes (1972). In this respect, in an attempt to develop students’ communicative competence, a large number of conversations exemplifying real life situations, and communicative activities on all four language skills should be abundantly used in language teaching curriculum. From the dialogue teaching perspective, it can be stated these fours skills are integrated when the principles to be mentioned below are followed. What is intended in dialogue should be not only rules but also communication since knowing just the rules do not always lead to satisfactory communication. For that reason, the dialogues to be taught need to convey this issue and they should not totally violate linguistic or social principles. Taking this issue into account, as both dialogues and conversations share much in common they have to fulfill certain linguistic and social rules in order to be successful. In mo
