Communicative competence refers to an individual's pragmatic ability to use language effectively and appropriately based on context. It involves multiple dimensions including grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence. Theorists like Hymes, Savignon, and Cummins contributed to the understanding of communicative competence, distinguishing between basic interpersonal skills and cognitive academic language proficiency. Pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning. It involves sociopragmatics, pragmalinguistics, and examines language use across situations, cultures, and through nonverbal channels.

1. Communicative Competence

2. What is Communicative Competence?HymesThe ability to interpret messages and negotiate meaning within specific contexts. SavignonAn interpersonal construct examined by means of overt performance of two or more people in the process of communication.

3. James Cummins (1980)CALPCognitive/Academic Language ProficiencyContext ReducedSurface features of language

4. Focus on form

5. Used for classroom exercises

6. Communicative capacity of language

7. Focus on meaning

8. Used for daily interpersonal exchangesBICSContext EmbeddedBasic Interpersonal Communicative Skills

9. Canale & SwainGrammatical CompetenceLexical items

10. Morphology

11. Syntax

12. Semantics

13. PhonologySociolinguistic CompetenceStrategic CompetenceSociocultural rules

14. Understanding social context4Verbal/nonverbal strategies to compensate for breakdowns due to performance variables or insufficient competenceAbility of connecting sentences

15. Intersentential RelationshipsDiscourse Competence

16. Bachman (1990)REMEMBERLocutionaryact: Performance of an utterance“It’s cold in here.”Illocutionary act: Intended meaning[The windows is open. So I should close it.]Perlocutionary act: Consequences of the utterance (whether intended or not)[Someone closes the window.]Dialect

17. Register

18. Naturalness

19. Cultural References