DEVELOPING A SCALE FOR ASSESSING COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE OF STUDENTS LEARNING ENGLISH FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES

The aim of this paper is to use models of communicative competence for designing a scale for assessing communicative competence. The first part of the paper defines communication, as well as communicative competence. Furthermore, models of communicative competence are presented, as well as the similarities and differences between them. Based on the presented models of communicative competence, the authors propose a scale for assessing students' communicative competence. This scale encompasses all the components of communicative competence that are relevant for assessing communicative competence. Also, an example of an activity through which students can be tested is presented. Based on the research conducted earlier using this scale, the paper argues that this scale could be a very good tool for testing communicative competence of students who are learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP).