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Shared knowledge of the ideal speaker-listener set in a completely homogeneous speech community.
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It establishes a serie of functions that involve the exchange of meanings and occurs when people simply interact.
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Producing and understanding sentences that are appropriate and acceptable to a particular situation.
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They defined communicative competence in terms of three components, basic competences largely taking up the model of Hymes:
*Grammatical competence: Grammatical, lexical, morphology, syntax, semantic, phonology
*Sociolinguistic competence: Use, discourse
*Strategic competence: Verbal and non- verbal communication. -
Globalizing construct that encompasses the skills, abilities and knowledge that the language user must use to interact effectively in diverse social contexts.