COMMUNICATIVE

COMPETENCE

 BY: GROUP 7
 PUTRI SHAVIRA RAMADHANI (166310706)
 INTAN DINA SAPUTRI (166310788)
 DYLA FADELSY (166310279)
 What is communicative competence?

Putri Shavira Ramadhani

 Chomsky (1965) “rule governed creativity”
described a child’s mushrooming grammar at the
age of three or four did not, according to
Hymes, account sufficiently for the social and
functional rules of language.
The term communicative
competence was coined by Dell
Hymes(1967-1972): as the aspect
of our competence that enables
us to convey and interpret
messages and to negociate
meanings interpersonally within
specific contexts.
 Savignon (1983:9)
Note that “communicative competence is relative,
not absolute, and depends on the cooperation of all
the participants involved.”
 James Cummins (1979 – 1980)
CALP BICS

Cognitive/ Academic Language Basic Interpersonal

Proficiency Communicative Skills

Is that dimension of proficiency in

Is the communicative capacity
which the learner manipulates or
that all children acquire in order
reflects upon the surface features
to be able to function in daily
of language outside of the
interpersonal exchanges.
immediate interpersonal context
 Canale and Merril Swain(1980)

GRAMMATICAL
COMPETENCE Knowing how to use : Grammar,
Reflect
syntax, and phonology the use of
the
The ability we have to connect linguistic
system
DISCOURSE COMPETENCE sentences in stretches of discourse
itself
and to form a meaningful whole
out of a series of utterances
Requires an understanding of the social
context in which languange is and
SOCIOLINGUISTIC
knowing how to respond to language
COMPETENCE appropriately Define the
functional
The verbal and non verbal aspecets of
communication strategies that may be communi-
called into action to compensate for cation
STRATEGIC COMPETENCE breakdowns in communication due to
performance variables or due to
insufficient competence
 Lyle Bachman (1990)

Figure 9.1
 Lyle Bachman (1990)

Figure 9.2
 Language Functions
Function are essentially the purposes that
we accoplish with language

Stating Requesting

Responding

Greeting
Parting

Morphemes
Words
Grammar rules
Other organizational
competencies
 Michael Halliday (1973)
7 Function of Language

Instrumental To cause certain events to Dont touch the stove

happen
I pronounce you guilty and sentence
Regulator Control of events you to three years in prison

-Conveying facts and knowledge 1. The sun is hot

Representational
-Representing reality as it is 2. President gave a speech last night

To establish social contact

Interactional To keep channels of communication How it is going?
open

Personal
To express feelings and
I feel very excited today!
emotions

Seeking answer especially Why did they refuse to

Heuristic comply?
using “why” question

To create ideas and You cant change the truth, but

Imaginative the truth can change you
imaginations
 Functional Syllabuses

Notional – functional- syllabuses

Notions Referred both to abstract consepts such

as existence, space, time, quantity, and
quality and to what we call context or
situation such as health, travel,
education, shopping, and free time

Corresponded to what we have

Functional defined above as language
functions.
 First several lesson of an advanced beginner’s textbook

1. Introducing self and other people

2. Exchanging personal information
3. Asking how to spell someone’s name
4. Giving commands
5. Apologizing and thanking
6. Identifying and describing people Includes :
7. Asking for information
1. An electic blend of conversation practice
with a classmate
2. Interactive group work
3. Role-plays
4. Grammar and pronounciation focus
exercise
5. Information-gap techniques
6. Internet activities
7. Extra-class interactive practice