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  " It´s the account sufficienty for the social and functional rules of language"
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  "we shall not need to draw a distinction between an
 idealized knowledge of a language and its actualized use: between
 the 'code* and 'the use of code* or between competence and
 performance."
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  " Producing and understandiing sentences that are appropiate and acceptable to a particular situation"
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  Presented a view of the relationship btween linguistic system and their communicative values in text and discourse, he focusesd on the communicative acts underlying the abilyti to use language for different purposes.
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  Four differents components . sociolinguistic Competence, Gramatical competence,Discourse competence,Strategic Competence.
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  It consisted of two main constituents: organizational competence and discourse competence.
 communicative language ability is made
 up of two main components: language competence and metacognitive strategies.
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  A globalizing construct that encompasses the skills, abilities and knowledge that the language user must use to interact effectively in diverse social contexts.