Interactional Competence or Communicative Competence: Overview of Related Theories

The article analyses the relationship of communicative and interactional competences by providing chronological evolution of the terms and discussing contrasting and similar approaches the language scholars presented earlier. Besides, relevant examples for issues of testing and assessing these two competences are illustrated to show the gaps between communicative teaching and testing.

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