Defining The Concepts “Competence” And “Communicative Competence”
Hurriyat Aslonova , Lecturer Of Uzbek State World Languages University, UzbekistanAbstract
Competence is defined as communicative language ability - a concept comprised of knowledge or
competence and capacity for appropriate use of knowledge in a contextual communicative language
use. In this article, the concepts “competence” and “communicative competence” are defined and
the models of communicative competence are discussed in language teaching and learning.
Keywords
Competence, communicative competence
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Hymes, D. H. (1972). On Communicative
Competence. In Pride, J. B., & Holmes, J.
(Eds.), Sociolinguistics, 269-293.
Baltimore, USA: Penguin Education,
Penguin Books Ltd
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