Communicative Competence

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE

DEFINITION This competence is integral with attitudes, values, and motivations concerning language, its features, and uses, and integral with competence for, and attitudes toward, the interrelation of language with the other code of communicative conduct. Communicative competence is made up of four competency areas: linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic. Competence is the ideal language system that enables speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences.

MAIN CONCEPT It refers to a language user's grammatical knowledge.of syntax, morphology, phonology and the like, as well

Born in Portland, Oregon June 7, 1927, and Died in Charlottesville, Virginia) November 13, 2009

Dell Hymes was a sociolinguist, anthropologist, and folklorist whose work has dealt primarily with languages of the Pacific Northwest. Hymes earned his Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1955 and took a job at Harvard University.

One of the first sociolinguists, Hymes helped to pioneer the connection between speech and human relations and human understandings of the world. Noam Chomsky.

Born in Philadelphia on December 7, 1928, Noam Chomsky was an intellectual prodigy who went on to earn a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1955, he has been a professor at MIT and has produced groundbreaking, controversial theories on human linguistic capacity. Chomsky is widely published, both on topics in his field and on issues of dissent and U.S. foreign policy.

ELEMENTS AND THEIR DEFINITIONS >Possibility.- When a phrase is grammatically correct or incorrect. It helps to decide what grammar rule is necessary and possible.

>Feasibility.- This is the process to understand the meaning of information in the mind. It makes information easily

- Communicative competence is a much more inclusive category than linguistic competence.

- This theory deals with the fixed phrases, idiomatic expressions, and speech patterns. The linguistic competence is a field study more specific:

- This theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech community

- It is what you know about a language at this time.

- Linguistic competence means a person is able to distinguish the part of speech: nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc.

THE ROLE OF COMPETENCE FOR EDUCATION The role of communicative competence for education is: Help that the language instruction, as the use of the language or effective communication must be integrated with General knowledge of the literature, arts, history, and geography associated with the target language community. The Role of Linguistic competence for education is teaching or transmits the forms of the language of learning/teaching which are especially helpful in attaching to the subject and the forms of communication necessary for imparting and acquiring subject-related knowledge and