Transitioning from Communicative Competence to Multimodal and Intercultural Competencies: A Systematic Review
societies Systematic Review Transitioning from Communicative Competence to Multimodal and Intercultural Competencies: A Systematic Review Khomeshwaree Mootoosamy and Vahid Aryadoust * 1. Introduction Over the years, researchers have investigated and assigned multiple meanings to the construct of communicative competence, e.g., [1 – 8]. In her study, Savignon [9] rejected Copyright: © 2024 by the authors. the distinction between performance and competence by asserting that the only way of Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. ascertaining the level of speakers’ communicative competence is through performance. Fur- This article is an open access article ther, as an extension from the works of Hymes [ 10, 11 ], a number of researchers [ 1, 3 –5, 9 ,12 ] distributed under the terms and have developed models of communicative competence (CC), not as models describing the conditions of the Creative Commons constituents of actual communication, but rather as a way of encapsulating psycholing...