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COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE TIMELINE
This timeline was designed in order to show the changes and history of the term "communicative competence" has experienced. -
NOAM CHOMSKY
The conception of Chomsky’s perspective on Competence: ‘’ Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely homogeneous speech-community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitations, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance.’’ -
DELL HYMES
Communicative competence is that aspect of our competence that enables us to convey and interpret messages and to negotiate meanings. the backgrounds, world knowledge and experiences are of importance to match the level of communication to competency. As language is learned and used for a variety of purposes. -
HENRY WIDDOWSON
"we need to teach communicative competence along with linguistic competence"
Two aspects of performance:
Usage (knowledge of linguistic rules).
Use (The ability to use that knowledge)
Two aspects of meaning:
"significance" (meaning of the sentences isolated from a particular situation).
"value" (meaning of the sentences when they are used to communicate) -
CANALE AND SWAIN
canale and swain establish that the study of grammatical competence is as essential as the study of communicative competence as is the study of sociolinguistic competence.
They argue that communicative competence minimaly includes three main competencies: grammatical, sociolinguistic and strategic competence. -
BACHMAN Y PALMER
Divides it into the broad headings of "organizational competence", which includes both grammatical
and discourse (or textual) competence, and "pragmatic competence", which includes both:
sociolinguistic and "illocutionary" competence -
LILIANA MATURANA
La competencia comunicativa se puede definir como “un constructo globalizante que abarca las habilidades, destrezas y conocimientos de los que ha de servirse el usuario de la lengua para interactuar efectivamente en diversos contextos sociales”.
