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People can use language resources to accomplish their purposes by expressing meanings in context.
FEEL FREE TO USE IT!
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2. Defining Communicative Competence
• As termed by Dell Hymes (1967)
• Chomsky’s rule– governed creativity
• James Cummins (1980) CALP and BICS
• Michael Canale & Merill Swain (1980) Model
• Bachman’s (1990) Components of Language Competence
3. Communicative Competence
• Was coined by Dell Hymes (1967- 1972), a
sociolinguist who was convinced that
Chomsky’s (1965) notion of competence was
too limited.
• Referred to communicative competence as
that aspect of our competence that enables us
to convey and interpret messages and to
negotiate meanings interpersonally within
specific contexts.
• Savignon (1983:9) noted that communicative
competence is relative, not absolute, and
depends on the cooperation of all the
4. Communicative Competence
• James Cummins (1979, 1980) proposed a distinction
between cognitive/academic language proficiency
(CALP) and basic interpersonal communicative
skills (BICS).
• CALP is that dimension of proficiency in which the learner
manipulates or reflects upon the surface features of
language outside of the immediate and interpersonal
context.
- It is what learners often use in classroom exercises
and tests that focus on form.
• BICS is the communicative capacity that all children
acquire in order to be able to function in daily
interpersonal exchanges.
5. Communicative Competence
• Cummins later (1981) modified his
notion of CALP and BICS in the form
of context-reduced and context-
embedded.
• A good share of classroom ,
school-oriented language is
context-reduced
• While face-to-face communication
with people is context –embedded.
6. Communicative Competence
• Canale and Swain (1980)
-four different components, or subcategories make up the construct
of communicative competence. The first two subcategories reflect the
use of linguistic system itself; the last two define the functional
aspects of communication.
1. Grammatical competence is that aspect of communicative
competence that encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and
of rules of porphology, syntax, sentence-grammar semantics and
phonology” (Canale & Swain 1980:29)
2. The second subcategory is discourse competence, the
complement of grammatical competence in many ways. It is the
ability we have to connect sentences in stretches of discourses
and to form a meaningful whole out of a series of utterances.
-Discourse means everything from simple spoken conversation to
lengthy written texts (articles, books, and the like). While grammatical
competence focuses on sentence-level grammar, discourse
competence is concerned with intersentential relationships.
7. Communicative Competence
• 3. Sociolinguistic competence is the knowledge of the
sociocultural rules of language and of discourse. This type of
competence “requires an understanding of the social context in
which language is used: the roles of the participants, the
information they share, and the function of the interaction. Only in a
full context of this kind can judgments be made on the
appropriateness of a particular utterance (Savignon 1983:37).
• 4. The fourth subcategory is strategic competence, a construct
that is exceedingly complex. Canale & Swain (1980:30) described
strategic competence as the “verbal and nonverbal communication
strategies that may be called into action to compensate for
breakdowns in communication due to performance variables or due
to insufficient competence”.
Savignon (1983:40) paraphrases this as the “strategies that one uses to
compensate for imperfect knowledge of rules- or limiting factors in their
application such as fatigue, distraction, and attention”.
10. The Functional approach
to describing language is one that has its roots in the
traditions of British Linguist J.R Firth, who viewed
language as interactive and interpersonal “a way of
behaving and making others “behave” (quoted by Berns
1984a:5)
Michael Halliday(1973), who provided one of the best
expositions of language functions, used in term to mean
the purposive nature of communication, and outlined
seven different functions of language.
1. The Instrumental Function
-serves to manipulate the environment, to cause
certain events to happen. Sentences like
“This court finds you guilty”
“On your mark, get set go!”
“Don’t touch the stove”
11. • 2. The regulatory function of language is the control of
events.
“I pronounce you guilty and sentence you to three years in
prison” serves an instrumental function,
but the sentence “Upon good behavior, you will be eligible
for parole in ten months” serves more of a regulatory
function.
3. The representational function is the use of language to
make statements, convey facts and knowledge , explain or
report – that is to “represent” reality as one sees it.
“The sun is hot”
“The President gave a speech last night”
“The world is flat”
all serve representational functions, although the last
representation may be highly disputed.
12. • 4. The interactional function of language serves to
ensure social maintenance. “Phatic communication,”
Malinowski’s term referring to the communicative
contact between and among human beings that simply
allows them to establish social contact and to keep
channels of communication open, is part of the
international function of language. Successful
interactional communication requires knowledge of
slang, jargon, jokes, folklore, cultural mores, politeness
and formality expectations, and other keys to social
exchange.
• 5. The personal function allows to a speaker to express
feelings, emotions, personality, “gut-level” reactions. A
person’s individuality is usually characterized by his or
her use the personal function of communication.
13. • 6. the Heuristic function involves language used to
acquire knowledge, to learn about the environment.
Heuristic functions are often conveyed in the form of
questions that will lead to answers. Children typically
make good use of the heuristic function in their incessant
“why” questions about the world around them. Inquiry is a
heuristic method of eliciting representations of reality from
others.
• 7. The imaginative function serves to create imaginary
systems or ideas. Telling fairy tales, joking, or writing a
novel are all uses of the imaginative function. Poetry,
tongue twisters, puns, and other instances, of the
pleasurable uses of language also fall into the imaginative
function. Through the imaginative dimensions of language
we are free to go beyond the real world so soar to the
heights of the beauty of language itself, and through that
language to create impossible dreams if we so desire.