Week02. SSL. Communicative Competence and Skills

Introduced the terms "langue" and "parole" to differentiate between the language system shared by a speech community and the act of speaking.

• Noam Chomsky

• Dell Hymes

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Introduced the term "competence" to refer to a person's knowledge of the rules of a language, the grammar.

• Noam Chomsky

• Dell Hymes

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Defined communicative competence not only in terms of the set of rules a person knows about a language but considering the appropriateness of the use of the language, the sociolinguistic perspective.

• Noam Chomsky

• Dell Hymes

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Terms used by Chomsky to differentiate between the knowledge of a language and its actual use.

• Langue and parole

• competence and performance

• communication and grammar

Their model of communicative competence originally included three components: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, and strategic competence.

• Canale (1983, 1984)

• Bachman and Palmer (1996)

• Canale and Swain

  (1980, 1981)

According to Canale and Swain (1980, 1981), the knowledge of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies that are recalled to compensate for breakdowns in communication due to insufficient competence in one or more components of communicative competence refers to...

• Strategic competence

• Grammatical competence

• Discourse competence

According to Canale (1983, 1984), the mastery of rules that determine ways in which forms and meanings are combined to achieve a meaningful unity of spoken or written texts refers to...

• Strategic competence

• Grammatical competence

• Discourse competence

Bachman and Palmer's model of communicative language ability is divided into two main componentes: organization competence and...

• Pragmatic competence

• Grammatical competence

• Sociolinguistic competence

The components of "communicative competence" according to the CEFR are

• Grammatical competence, pragmatic competence and linguistic competence

• knowledge, know how to do, know how to be

• Linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence and pragmatic competence

The skills and activities that students need to develop according to the CEFR include:

• reading, speaking, writing and listening

• reception, production, interaction and mediation

• reading comprehension, oral production, listening comprehension and written production