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Over the past decade, sociolinguistics has come to have an increasing impact on the field of TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages). To a great extent, this development has been due to the realization that second-language acquisition is, in fact, the acquisition of what Dell Hymes has called communicative competence. That is, becoming an effective speaker of a new language not only involves learning new vocabulary in addition to rules of pronunciation and grammar, but must also include the ability to use these linguistic resources in ways that are socially appropriate among speakers of the target language.
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Wolfson, N. (1989). The Social Dynamics of Native and Nonnative Variation in Complimenting Behavior. In: Eisenstein, M.R. (eds) The Dynamic Interlanguage. Topics in Language and Linguistics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0900-8_14
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