Communicative competence

By Caro Muñoz

  • Noam Chomsky

    Shared knowledge of the ideal Speaker-Listener set in a completely homogeneous speech community.

  • Michael Halliday

    He stablishes seven functions to the interchange of meaning when people interact, those are: Instrumental, Regulator, Interpersonal, Personal, Heuristics, Imaginative, and Representative.

  • William Labovs

    Co-varies with the speaker dual competence in reception.

  • Dell Hymes

    Knowledge of the rules for understanding and producing, the abilities required to use the language in a social context, it refers to 8 components “SPEAKING” it means: Setting, Participants, Ends, Acts, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Gender.

  • Henry Widdowson

    The views language learning as acquiring the ability to use language to communicate the suggest that communicative abilities have to develop at the same time as the linguistics skills.

  • Stephen Krashen

    The unconscious absorption of language in real use.

  • Canale and Swain

    Canale and Swain
    Focus on the interaction of social context in terms of 3 components. Grammar, Sociolinguistics, and strategy.

  • Wilga M Rivers

    Language teaching can and should approach language learning objectively and analytically through the study and practice of structural, functional, and sociocultural aspects.

  • Stern

    Language teaching should offer opportunities to live the language as a personal experience through direct contract with the target language community.