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“Applied l<strong>in</strong>guists have for some time suggested that communicative<br />

<strong>competence</strong> <strong>in</strong>cludes a major component, usually termed <strong>strategic</strong><br />

<strong>competence</strong>, <strong>the</strong> <strong>development</strong> <strong>of</strong> which largely determ<strong>in</strong>es <strong>the</strong><br />

learner’s fluency and conversational skills. Practic<strong>in</strong>g teachers,<br />

however, are usually unaware <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> significance <strong>of</strong> this <strong>competence</strong>,<br />

and hardly any activities have been developed to <strong>in</strong>clude strategy<br />

tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> actual language teach<strong>in</strong>g.”<br />

Dörnyei and Thurrell<br />

“Communicative Competence is generally regarded by most<br />

contemporary educators as an essential goal <strong>of</strong> second language<br />

acquisition”<br />

Cenoz and Genesee

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