Language Ability/ Communicative Competence

Language Ability/ Communicative Competence

1. Organizational Knowledge

   • Grammatical Knowledge
     • Morphology;
       • Suffixes; er - est worst
       • Prefixes; more than, the most, the worst
     • Phonology
       • Th sound like in Earth - Health
     • Vocabulary
       • Nouns; pollution, issues, vehicles, effects, location, valley, health, expossure
       • Adjectives; super/comp : worst, worse, Opinions: affection, attention,feelings Descriptive: solutions, show problem , level, pollution, damage, conscious, correct, social, environmental,serious
       • Verbs; would like, plan, want, hope, expect
     • Syntax
       • Simple present/future,
         • Simple future; will-should-could
           • Projections , predictions , reasons
         • Simple present; verb to be : is -are
       • Compound sentences
   • Textual Knowledge
     • Coherence
       • Text sequentially with organized content
     • Cohesion
       • Punctuation ( . - ,)
       • Connectors: Coordinating Conjunctions; For, And, But, Or, So to join words, sentences and clauses

2. Pragmatic Knowledge

   • Functional
     • Heuristic
       • Offers and finds information facts, Intention to solve a problem, argumentation
     • Imaginative
       • Arguing, graphic organizer
   • Discourse
     • Relationships between causes, effects, and solutions. Existing and created sentences

3. Topical Knowledge

4. Sociolinguistic

   • Social Expressions/Common Expressions

5. Content Validity

   • 9 graders_ A2 LEVEL, English Please, public Institution