Communicative competence implies a competitive ethic with the usual socio-political implications.
When students find themselves involved in a social occasion, topicalization and referring activities appear spontaneously. Hence, to produce involvement as a routine instructional accomplishment in the classroom, every student must experience his relatedness to whatever activity is being required of him in the role of student. Managing this involvement is possible in frame control. No other kind of involvement can produce spontaneous talk. To the extent that one's involvement is with relationship rather than with meaning, to that extent the participant's conduct in exchanges will be genuine, spontaneous, natural, ordinary.