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  Competence speech community, applying knowledge to the language use.
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  Interchanging meanings which occur when people simply interact.
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  To use language in a social context by 8 components:setting and scene, participants, ends, act secuence, key, instrumentalities, norms and gender.
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  He focused on the ability to use language, language learning is not merely the knowledge of the rules of the grammar
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  Theory of communicative competence in terms of:
Grammatical competence
Sociolinguistic competence
Strategic competence
Discourse competence - 
  
  The language as a personal experience through direct contact whit the target language community.
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  -Communicative competence: 2 components:
Pragmatic knowledge and organizational knowledge
-thematic knowledge: age, beliefs and histories.
-affective scheme: positive and negative.
-personal characteristics: age, attitude, personality and cognitive. - 
  
  Communicative competence: Abilities and knowledge for interacting in different context.