COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

By ANDERSONM

  • Chomsky

    Chomsky
    Made the distintion between competence and performance.
    He said that the language is acquired.

  • Halliday

    Halliday
    Language is the "meaning potential"
    He defines linguistic as the study how people exchange meaning by languaging.
    He talks about the seven linguistics funtions.

  • Hymes

    Hymes
    • There are some components that influence the acquisition of the communicative competence (SPEAKING)
    • He talked about the transformational theory.
    • The mos salient connotation of performance is "that imperfect manifestation of underlying system"
    • He points out that the Chomsky's theory does not take into account sociocultural aspects.
    • It's necesary to distinguish 2 kinds of competence. Linguistic competence and communicative competence.

  • Labov

    Labov
    Talks about dual competence by recepting.
    Mentions African - American children who distinguish the standard english and the variation of the black english.

  • Widdowson

    Widdowson
    Widdowson views language learning not merely as acquiring the knowledge of the rules of grammar, but also as acquring the ability to use language to communicative.
    He says that knowing a language is more than how to understand, speak, read and write sentences, but how sentences are usted to communicate.

  • Canale and Swain

    Canale and Swain
    Their work focuses on the interaction of social context, grammar, and meaning (more precisely, social meaning).
    They maintain that there are rules of language use that would be useless without rules of grammar.

  • Bachman & A. Palmer

    Bachman & A. Palmer
    They divided into 2 categories: Organizational knowlwdge that is the gramatical knowledge (vocabulary, syntax, ortograph and phonology) and textual knowledge (Coherence, cohesion, discourses) and pragmatic knowledge that is the actual use of language; this category is divided into funtional knowledge (Heuristic, imaginative, manupulative, idiotinal) and Sociolinguistic knowledge (formal/informal, expressions, dialects and regionalism.

  • Liliana Maturana

    Liliana Maturana
    She talks about the communicative competence as a globalized construction which includes abilities , dexterities and knowledge.to interact effectively.