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He defined communicative competence as a the distiction between competence and performance. Competence: It is the use of the language to produce and
understand an infinite set of sentences out of a finite set of rules. Performance: It is the application to the knowledge to the actual
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He define communicative competence such a interaction. Establishment of a series of functions that involve the exchange of meanings and occurs when the people just interact.
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Affirms that the competence co-varies with speaker and his context.
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The skills and knowledge that a person needs to use the language in a social context is mediated by the acronym SPEAKING (Setting, Participants, Ends, Act secuence, Key, Instrumentalities, Norms, Gender.
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He views language learning not merely as acquiring the knowledge of the rules of grammar,but also as acquiring the ability to use language to communicate.
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He proposed unconscious absortion of language in real use.
Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules, and does not require tedious drill. -Meaningful interaction in the target language-natural communication. -
He proposed 7 funtions: Instrumental, Regulatory, Interpersonal, Personal, Heuristic, Imaginative, Representative
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Defined it in 3 components: Gramatical competence, Sociolinguistic competence, Strategic competence
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He said that live the language as a personal experience through direct contact with the target language community. Development of coping techniques when learners are alone in the new language environment.
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Proposed a new organization: Pragmatic knowledge and Organizational Knowledge.
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She says that the communicative competence is a construct to involves abilities, skills and knowledge to be used in diverse social context with specific intentions
