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Linguistic Theory
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Support Hymes' Theory, Hymes, communicative competence is related to knowing "when to speak, when not to speak, and what to speak about, with whom, when, where, in what form"; that is, it is the ability to form utterances that are not only grammatically correct but also socially appropriate.
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Hymes proposes communicative competence as the knowledge and skills required to use language in a social context.
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Rivers points out, “the student must learn to articulate acceptably and construct comprehensible language sequences by rapid associations of learned elements.”(Rivers,1972)
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The 7 functions: instrumental, regulatory, interpersonal, personal, heuristic, imaginative and representational.
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They firmly believe that the study of grammatical competence is as essential to the study of communicative competence as is the study of sociolinguistic competence, they have 3 components and 1 basic competence: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence and strategic competence.
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As Stern points out, the activity “offers the learner a chance of developing coping techniques that the learner needs when he finds himself alone in the new language environment.”
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Requires another level of knowledge such as coherence, cohesion and rhetorical organization or linguistic structure.
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Globalizing construct that encompasses skills, abilities and knowledge used by the user for social interaction.