Dr. John Corbett was interviewed about the concepts of communicative competence and intercultural competence, on December 12, 2020, by Rehana Paul, CID intern.
Dr. Corbett answers the following questions:
- What is communicative competence?
- How do communicative competence and intercultural dialogue fit together?
- How does intercultural language education relate to these other terms?
- How has COVID-19 influenced telecollaboration in intercultural communication?
- Compare communicative competence to intercultural competence.
For further information, see his one-page summary:
Corbett, J. (2014). Communicative competence. Key Concepts in Intercultural Dialogue, 9.
Very interesting. The distinction between communicative competence, linguistic competence, and intercultural competence is made clear in a very simple way.