Download or read book Communicative Competence written by Sandra J. Savignon and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stressing the use of meaningful language at all stages of language acquisition, this work is about texts and contexts in second language learning. It is intended for teachers and teachers-in-training as an introduction to the theoretical basis for communicative language teaching and as a guide to building a program consonant with those theories.