What should a teacher know about communicative competence?
In this connection it is Savignon who makes her own contribution which we consider to be highly informative and relevant to our study. She speaks about the following features of the communicative competence present in the process of communication: “1. Communicative competence is a dynamic rather than a static concept. It depends on the negotiation of meaning between two or more persons who share to some degree the same symbolic system. In this sense, then, communicative competence can be said to be an interpersonal rather than an intrapersonal trait. 2. Communicative competence applies to both written and spoken language, as well as to many other symbolic systems. 3. Communicative competence is context specific. Communication takes place in an infinite variety of situations, and success in a particular role depends on one´s understanding of the context and on prior experience of a similar kind. It requires making appropriate choices of register and style in terms of situation and other
