Monday 9 April 2012

Assignment 3: Communicative competence

Rega Detapratiwi
2201409057
405-406

Communicative competence: A pedagogically motivated model with content specifications
Celce-Murcia, Dőrnyei, Thurrell (1995)

The relationship between models of communicative competence and pedagogical specification of content for Communicative Language Teaching  not unified under a comprehensive, theoretical model of language teaching. According to Hymes (1972), the meaning of communicative competence itself is such competence involves: not only knowing the grammatical rules of a language but also what to say to whom in what circumstances and how to say it; that is, the rules of grammar are useless without the rules of language use. Thus, the real objective of linguistic research should be the study of how language is performed in different contexts, with different people, on different topics, for different purposes.

The competences that stated by Celce-Murcia, Dornyei and Thurrell including:
1.       Linguistic competence: the knowledge of the basic elements of the language code (syntax, morphology, vocabulary, phonology, orthography).
2.       Strategic competence: knowledge of verbal and non-verbal communication strategies which enable us to overcome difficulties when communication breakdowns occur, ie. It is the ability to express oneself in the face of difficulties or limited language proficiency.
3.       Sociocultural competence: the mastery of the sociocultural rules of language use: the appropriate application of vocabulary, registers, politeness, and style in a given social situation within a given culture.
4.       Actional competence: the ability to understand and convey communicative intent by interpreting and performing language functions (complimenting, reporting, agreeing/disagreeing, predicting, suggesting, etc.)
5.       Discourse competence: the ability to combine language structures into different types of unified spoken and written discourse (dialogue, political speech, poetry, academic paper, cookery recipe, etc.).

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