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Defining Communicative Competence
Bagarić and Mihaljević (2007)
- Concept of communicative
comptence
- Sauvignon (1972, 1983)
describes
communicative
competence as «the
ability to function in a
truly communicative
setting»
- Taylor (1988)
proposed to replace
the term
«communicative
competence» with the
term «communicative
proficiency».
- At approximately the
same time and for
similar reasons,
Bachman (1990)
suggested using the
term
«communicative
language ability»,
- Chomsky
(1965) VS
Hymes
(1966/72)
- Chomsky defined:
- 1. Competition:
linguistic
knowledge.
- 2. Performance:
Use of
language.
- Hymes
defined
- 1. Communicative
competence:
- 1.1 linguistic
knowledge
- 1.2 Sociolinguistic
knowledge
- 1.3 Ability to use
the language
- 2. Performance: real
use of the language.
- The theoretical model of Canale
and Swain (1980, 1981)
- There are 4 components:
- Then Canale added a
fourth component to what
it call speech competition.
- At the beginning
there was only
these 3
- Grammatical
Competence
- Sociolinguistic
Competence
- Strategic
competence
- Bachman and Palmer (1996) proposed a
broader model of communicative
competence.
- They are divided into 3 dimensions
- organizational competence
- It refers to the
formal use of the
language.
- The components of this dimension are
- grammatical
knowledge
(vocabulary,
morphology, syntax,
phonetics and
phonology and the
writing system)
- Textual knowledge
(discursive genres:
presentations,
conversations,
paragraph writing,
essays, etc.)
- pragmatic competence
- which refers to the
meanings and
contexts in which
language is used.
- This dimension has 2 components
- Sociolinguistic Competence
- how the language is
used in society
(gender, region, age,
social role, etc.)
- Functional
knowledge:
- Use the language to express
feelings or desires or to convince
someone to do something for us.
- Strategic Competence
- work with both
competences.
- Communicative
competence refers
to the ability to
handle a language
in a given
communicative
context.
- This uses
other skills
such as
- Linguistic
competence: It
is the ability to
produce and
interpret verbal
signs.
- Paralinguistic
competence: is
the ability to use
non-linguistic
signs to express
an attitude with
your
interlocutor.
- Kinesic
competence:
ability to
communicate
information
through
gestural signs.
- Proxemic
competence:
ability to manage
space and
interpersonal
distances.
- Pragmatic competence: ability
to make strategic use of
language in a social
environment according to the
intention and communicative
situation.
- Stylistic competence:
ability to know how
to say something
and the most
effective way to
achieve the
proposed objective.
- Textual
competence:
ability to
articulate and
interpret signs
organized in a
coherent whole
called text.
- Cognitive
competence: it is
the cultural
encyclopedia of
each speaker and
that makes it
possible to
understand any
type of text.
- Semantic
competence: is
the ability to
assign meanings
to words.