“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: