Communicative Compentence

By Laura Echeverry

  • Noam Chomsky (1965)

    Noam Chomsky (1965)
    He defined communicative competence as a the distiction between competence and performance. Competence: It is the use of the language to produce and
    understand an infinite set of sentences out of a finite set of rules. Performance: It is the application to the knowledge to the actual
    language use.

  • Michael Halliday (1970)

    Michael Halliday (1970)
    He define communicative competence such a interaction. Establishment of a series of functions that involve the exchange of meanings and occurs when the people just interact.

  • William Labov (1971)

    William Labov (1971)
    Affirms that the competence co-varies with speaker and his context.

  • Dell Hathaway Hymes (1972)

    Dell Hathaway Hymes (1972)
    The skills and knowledge that a person needs to use the language in a social context is mediated by the acronym SPEAKING (Setting, Participants, Ends, Act secuence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Gender.

  • Henry G. Widdowson (1972)

    Henry G. Widdowson (1972)
    He views language learning not merely as acquiring the knowledge of the rules of grammar,but also as acquiring the ability to use language to communicate.

  • Stephen Krashen (1978)

    Stephen Krashen (1978)
    He proposed unconscious absortion of language in real use.
    Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill. -Meaningful interaction in the target language-natural communication.

  • Michael Halliday (1978)

    Michael Halliday (1978)
    He proposed 7 funtions: Instrumental, Regulatory, Interpersonal, Personal, Heuristic, Imaginative, Representative

  • Canale and Swain (1980)

    Canale and Swain (1980)
    Defined it in 3 components: Gramatical competence, Sociolinguistic competence, Strategic competence

  • H. H. Stern (1981)

    He said that live the language as a personal experience through direct contact with the target language community. Development of coping techniques when learners are alone in the new language environment.

  • Bachman y Palmer (1996)

    Proposed a new organization: Pragmatic knowledge and Organizational Knowledge.

  • Liliana Maturana (2011)

    Liliana Maturana (2011)
    She says that the communicative competence is a construct to involves abilities, skills and knowledge to be used in diverse social context with specific intentions