Communicative competence and communicative teaching Atsuko Ohno

Communicative competence and communicative teaching Atsuko Ohno

1. LANGUAGE: as a means of communication among the member of a society that influences their cultural and individual identity and even their cognitive development because Language enables us to express thoughts ideas and feelings to others but also understanding them. (Sirbu A. (2019)

   • COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: Production and understanding of sentences that are appropriate and acceptable to a particular situation
     • LANGUAGE USE: Makes evident the extent to which the language user demonstrates his ability to use his knowledge of linguistic rules for effective communication.

2. LINGUISTICS: scientific studies of languages, how it is expressed and understood according to the nature of the language itself (braches: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics)

   • LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE: production and understanding of grammatically correct sentences
     • LANGUAGE USAGE: makes evident the extent to which the language user demonstrates his knowledge of linguistic rules.

3. CHOMSKY

   • COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: Shared knowledge of the ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community (Garden of Eden according to Hymes
   • PERFORMANCE: is concerned with the process of applying the underlying knowledge to the actual language use, commonly state as encoding and ecoding

4. HYMES

   • COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE is the knowledge of the rules for understanding and producing the referential and social meaning of language.(taking into account socio-cultural factors)

5. WIDDOWSON

   • COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING: Knowing a language is more than how to understand, speak, read, and write sentences, but how sentences are used to communicate (knowledge of appropriateness), so for teaching he suggests that communicative abilities have to be developed at the same time as linguistic skills.

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