SPEECH

CONTEXT
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Some scholars point

out that
Communicative communicative
Competence competence is not
only about language
Refers to one’s facility: it also entails
knowing how
ability to master language should be
the rules of used according to
language society’s expectations.
Communicative
Competence and
The Speech
Situation
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Grammatical
Competence
Knowledge of the
rules of grammar.
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Sociolinguistic
Competence

Pertains to the
knowledge of the use of
language in social
context.
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Competence
Noam Chomsky defined it as “a
shared knowledge of ideal speaker-listener
set in a completely homogeneous speech
community”.
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Four Components of
Communicative
Competence
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Grammatical
Competence
The ability to use correct
grammatical language in
communication. It
includes vocabulary,
pronunciation, sound-
letter relationships, and
the rules of word and
sentence formation.
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Sociolinguistic
Competence

The ability to correctly and

respond to language given
the setting, the topic, and
the relationships among the
people communicating.
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Discourse
Competence

The ability to connect

sentences in discourse, form a
meaningful series of
utterances, and to combine
language structures into a
cohesive and coherent oral or
written text of different texts.
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The ability to recognize

Strategic and repair
communication
Competence breakdowns, and work
around gaps in one’s
knowledge of the
language in context.

It is made of verbal and non-verbal communication

strategies that may be called into action to compensate
for breakdown in communication
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