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Communicative Competence
Communicative Competence
native speaker’s ability to get a grasp on the different aspects of linguistics such
as syntax, morphology, phonology and the like and the knowledge on how and
speaker, one must have a background on how words are formed and used in a
sentence, the meaning of a word and its derivation, its forms and functions. This
Mandarin) and you do not have a deep study or understanding of their spoken
languages, either English or Mandarin. How will you communicate with other
people? How will they understand you? Your sentence may be grammatically
acceptable but your sentence must also be sensible and meaningful because
once it is not, then probably, it will be hard for you to express your feelings and
get response from other people. If somebody asked you the location of the
comfort room and you answered, “The comfort room is hanging on the right of
the bridge.” (Non-sensible). In the same way, it is also important that your ideas
transfer effectively one idea to the audience. As much as you have accuracy
is easy to understand and shows how comfortable you are with the language.
This competence requires your interpersonal and social skill in understanding the
dialect to be used depends on the kind of people or setting you are in. When
conversing with a group highly intellectual people use decent words and observe
transitional devices such as, despite, however, if and plays an important role to
GRADUATE SCHOOL
AMETHYST T. CACHO
MAT-English
February 2, 2019