Learning to talk the talk and walk the walk: Interactional competence in academic spoken English

In this article I present the theory of interactional competence and contrast it with alternative ways of describing a learner’s knowledge of language. The focus of interactional competence is the structure of recurring episodes of face-to-face interaction, episodes that are of social and cultural s...

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Main Author: Richard F. Young
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos 2013-04-01
Series:Ibérica
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Online Access:http://www.aelfe.org/documents/02_25_Young.pdf