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Noam Chomsky
Communicative competence is the intuitive functional knowledge and control of the principles of language usage. To produce and understand an infinite set of sentences out of a finite set of rules. Chomsky did a distinction between competence and performance. -
Michael Halliday
Establishment of a series of functions that entail the exchange of meanings and occurs when people simply interact. -
Dell Hymes
A knowledge of the rules for understanding and producing referencial and social meaning of language.
Social factors interfere with or restrict grammar use because the rules of use are dominant over the rules of grammar, -
Henry Widdowson
Acquire the ability to use language to communicate, not only the knowledge of the rules of grammar.
Usage and use. -
Canale and Swain
Interaction of social context, grammar and meaning. It is essential the study of grammatical, sociolinguistic and strategic compentence. -
Lyle Backman
Proposed the term communicative language ability (CLA) to
replace the term communicative competence, claiming that this term combines in itself the meanings of both language proficiency and communicative competence. -
Backman and Palmer
It is the ability of a linguistic user to get involved in various types of interactions. Divide language competence into operational competence and pragmatic competence -
Liliana Maturana
"Constructo globalizante que abarca las habilidades, destrezas y conocimientos de los que ha de servirse el usuario de la lengua para interactuar efectivamente en diversos contextos sociales”. Es el uso apropiado del lenguaje.
