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Peer reviewedAlptekin, Cem – ELT Journal, 2002
Questions the validity of the pedagogic model based on the native speaker-based notion of communicative competence. Within its standardized native speaker norms, the model is found to be utopian, unrealistic, and constraining in relation to English as an international language (EIL). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), English (Second Language), Intercultural Communication, Language Standardization
