“An adequate theory of language pedagogy must
extend beyond grammatical mastery and account
for the sociocultural rules governing
appropriateness, discourse cohesion, and
strategic resourcefulness in real-life interaction.”
(Excerpt adapted from: Hymes, 1972, On
Communicative Competence; Canale & Swain,
1980, Theoretical Bases of Communicative
Approaches to Second Language Teaching and
Testing.)
The theoretical construct being operationalized in
the excerpt is: