Kompetencja komunikacyjna a glottodydaktyka

The concept of the communication competence originating from the linguistic science is now commonly used in the glottodidactics discourse. Numerous didactic models of the concept have been elaborated to suggest contents, methods and foreign language teaching techniques for several years. Today, a document that sets language teaching standards is the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001), elaborated by the European Council, which offers a description of the activity-based communication competence. The activity-based teaching implies not only linguistic communication competences but also transversal competences of the language user. The purpose of the paper is to present the evolution of the key concept in the foreign language teaching didactics and the presentation of its interpretation in contemporary glottodidactics.