Communicative Competence

According to Chomsky (1965), which of the following statements is true about competence?

• It is the ability to use language appropriately in real situations.

• It is the ability to master lexical items and rules of morphology, syntax, sentence grammar, semantics, and phonology.

• It is the intuitive knowledge of the underlying grammatical system that all native speakers of a language have.

Which of the following statements reflects the viewpoint of Hymes (1972) about communicative competence?

• The rules of grammar would be useless without certain rules of use.

• Language is about idealised grammar.

• The rules of grammar are the most important parts in communicative competence.

The ability to form a sentence from the following words: I have a bicylce refers to

• grammatical competence

• discourse competence

• strategic competence

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CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Knowing how to use and respond to language appropriately given the setting, the topic and the relationship among people communicating refers to which competence below?

• discourse competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

Read the following conversation.

Speaker 1: They want to offer me a position.

Speaker 2: They will not?

Speaker 1: No, they want.

Speaker 2: Ah, they want. I see.

What communicative competence does the conversation exemplify?

• discourse competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which communicative competence can be seen in the two sentences below?

It rained heavily yesterday. Therefore, the whole event was canceled.

• discourse competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

The ability to use Yours faithfully at the end of a letter of scholarship application instead of Best wishes refers to which competence below:

• discourse competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.9-10.1

CCSS.RL.11-12.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.1

The ability to add the prefix un to some adjectives so that you can create opposite meanings refers to

• grammatical competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

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CCSS.L.3.1A

When you know that you have been misunderstood in a conversation and try to repair that communicative problem, you are demonstrating your:

• grammatical competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

The sentence I will take them books demonstrates that the writer/ speaker may probably lack which competence?

• grammatical competence

• sociolinguistic competence

• strategic competence

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CCSS.L.3.1A

CCSS.L.6.1A

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.L.6.1D