Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Inclined to communicate readily; talkative.
  • adjective Of or relating to communication.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclined to communicate or confer; ready to impart; liberal: as, to be mutually communicative of benefits.
  • Disposed to impart or disclose knowledge, facts, or opinions; free in communicating; not reserved; open; talkative.
  • Disposed to communion with others.
  • Adapted or intended for communicating.
  • Capable of being communicated; communicable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Someone or something which tends to eagerly and effectively communicate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective able or tending to communicate
  • adjective of or relating to communication

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Examples

  • … Learners do not find room to speak as themselves, to use language in communicative encounters, to create text, to stimulate responses from fellow learners, or to find solutions to relevant problems (pp 8-9).

    C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Cognitive theorists might add that the attention to meaning required in communicative interaction requires that learners ‘park’ their concern for formal accuracy, and thereby develop strategies – such as ‘chunking’ – that promote fluency.

    August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Cognitive theorists might add that the attention to meaning required in communicative interaction requires that learners ‘park’ their concern for formal accuracy, and thereby develop strategies – such as ‘chunking’ – that promote fluency.

    C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • … Learners do not find room to speak as themselves, to use language in communicative encounters, to create text, to stimulate responses from fellow learners, or to find solutions to relevant problems (pp 8-9).

    August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Anyone who works with those who do not speak know that the word 'non-verbal' used to mean 'non-communicative' is just a falsehood.

    Unsaid Words Dave Hingsburger 2007

  • a letter just received & caught myself commenting & rhapsodizing aloud! see how communicative is my disposition — a heart full of romance

    Letter 78 1793

  • Thanks, Simon for your thoughtful, even impassioned, comment – it’s never too late to hear from someone such as yourself who has been at the forefront (one can’t say ‘cutting edge’ anymore, unhappily) of developments in communicative methodology and materials writing for so many years.

    S is for “Strategies” « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • No wonder, therefore, that the term communicative approach has become so elastic as to embrace any methodology that foregrounds speaking in pairs or small groups.

    August « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • No wonder, therefore, that the term communicative approach has become so elastic as to embrace any methodology that foregrounds speaking in pairs or small groups.

    C is for Communicative « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Wilkins was one of the chief architects of what would come to be known as the communicative approach: his seminal Notional Syllabuses, building on his work with the Council of Europe, would be published in 1976.

    March « 2010 « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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