Defining The Concepts “Competence” And “Communicative Competence”
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Competence, communicative competenceAbstract
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.
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Penguin Books Ltd.
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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