Bachman's communicative language competence model

Translational Language Competence

Organisational

Competence:

Pragmatic Competence

Grammatical

Competence:

Textual

Competence:

Vocabulary/Lexis

Morphology

Syntax

Graphology

Cohesion:

Rhetorical Organisation:

Illocutionary

Competence:

Sociolinguistic

Competence:

Ideational

Functions

Manipulative Functions

Heuristic

Functions

Imaginative Functions

Sensitivity to Dialect or Viarety

Sensitivity to Register

Sensitivity to Naturalness

Cultural References and Figures of Speech