From Communicative Competence to Interactional Competence: A New Outlook to the Teaching of Spoken English

Abstract

This paper reexamines communicative competence by studying several representative models.After examining some inherent defects with today's communicative spoken English teaching, the author highlights the importance of strategic competence and proposes a shift to interactional competence because conversational strategies can be best acquired and studied in the light of complete conversational loops.The author also proposes a model for the teaching of spoken English and demonstrates how conversational strategies function throughout the whole conversational loop.It is also hoped that spoken English testing should take the form of bi-directional or multi-directional conversation among candidates so that the teaching of conversational strategies can better promote the development of interactional competence.

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