Communicative competence as a framework for learning English

Abstract

The article investigates the development of ESL communication skills within the framework of communicative competence, emphasising interactive communication as a key component of spoken proficiency. Drawing on current approaches in second language acquisition and communicative language teaching, communicative competence is viewed as an integrated construct involving linguistic, pragmatic, and interactional dimensions. Particular attention is devoted to interactive communication, understood as the ability to initiate, sustain, and negotiate meaning in dialogue.