A short presentation about communicative competences :)

1. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
Paola Andrea Lizarralde Duque

2. Communicative competence is concerned not only with
how grammar/lexis is managed but also with the socio-
cultural rules of appropriate language use.•
Sociolinguistic
rules
Grammatical
rules

4. Communicative competence was further defined in
terms of four components:
1. Linguistic competence
2. Sociolinguistic competence
3. Discourse competence
4. Strategic competence

5. 1. Linguistic competence
Linguistic competence asks:
• What words do I use?
• How do I put them into phrases
and sentences?

6. 2. Sociolinguistic competence
Sociolinguistic competence asks:
• Which words and phrases fit this setting
and this topic?
• How can I express a specific attitude
(courtesy, authority, friendliness,
respect) when I need to?
• How do I know what attitude another
person is expressing?

7. 3. Discourse competence
Discourse competence asks:
• How are words, phrases and sentences put together to
create conversations, speeches, email messages,
newspaper articles?

8. 4. Strategic competence
Strategic competence asks:
• How do I know when I’ve misunderstood or when
someone has misunderstood me? What do I say then?
• How can I express my ideas if I don’t know the name of
something or the right verb form to use?

9. MODELS OF COMMUNICATIVE
COMPETENCE
Three models of communicative competece
1. Canel &
Swain
2. Bachman &
Palmer
• 3. The common
European
Framwork
• Grammatical
• Sociolingustic
• Strategic
competence
• Language competence
• Sociolinguistic Competence
• Pragmatic competence
• Grammatical
competence
• Textual
competence

10. Conclusion
• Communicative competences have reached an
agreement that a competent language user
should possess not only knowledge about
language but also the ability and skill to
activate that knowledge in a communicative
event.