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He determines that communication has two components:
Competence: Knowledge of the languagge
Performance: Use of the knowledge of the language in real contexts. -
He states a series of functions that entail the exchange of meanings and occurs when people simply interact.
Those functions are instrumental, regulatory, interpersonal, personal, heuristic, imaginative and representative. -
Communicative competence is a knowledge of the rules for understanding and producing both the referential and social meaning of language.
Setting scene: Dónde
Participants: Quién
Ends: Para qué
Act: Para qué
Key: Cómo se dice
Instrumentalities: De qué manera
Norms; Creencias
Gender: Tipo de disscurso -
Communicative competence needs to be taught alongside linguistic competence.
Usage: Linguistic knowledge
Use: Use of the linguistic knowledge for communication -
Skill Getting: Students learn to articulate acceptably and construct comprehensible language sequences by rapid associations.
Skill Using: Students are on their own during the task, in this process they absorb language in real time unconsciously. -
The study of grammatical competence is as essential to the study of communicative competence as the study of sociolinguistic competence.
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Structural, functional and sociocultural are the aspects in which language should be approached, and the use of language in authentic contexts is experimental.
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The communicative competence is based on two components called: Organizative component and pragmatic component.
Organizative: It's the way the disscourse is organized beggining in a phrease then a sentence and lastly a text.
Pragmatic: determines how the minimum units of speech and texts are correspond both to the characteristics of the situation and the context as with the intentions of the language user. -
Support the sociocultural competence in rules of appropiateness and politeness, idioms, figurative language, non verbal communication, cultural knowledge and references.
Strategic competence is planning for effective communication, avoiding difficulties in communication, and recovering from communication breakdowns. -
Communicaive competence is a globalizing construct that encompasses the skills, abilities and knowledge that the language user must use to effectively interact in various social contexts
