The document discusses several models of communicative competence:
1. Canale and Swain's model includes grammatical, sociolinguistic, and strategic competence. It emphasizes the demonstration of knowledge in actual performance.
2. Bachman's model distinguishes knowledge from skills. It includes language competence, strategic competence, and psychophysiological mechanisms.
3. Celce-Murcia et al.'s model has five components: discourse competence, actional competence, sociocultural competence, linguistic competence, and strategic competence. It aims to generate detailed content for curriculum design.
Introduction to constructs, models, and frameworks in language assessment. Discusses definitions and specifications including the dimensions of language ability.
Overview of three significant models (Canale and Swain, Bachman's). Components like grammatical, sociolinguistic, and strategic competence are highlighted. Detailing Canale's revised model, including discourse competence. Discussion of Bachman’s distinctions in knowledge and skill components.
Updates and amendments to existing models including affective factors and detailed components of communicative competence in syllabus design.
Closing remarks, thanking the audience for their attention.
MODELS, FRAMEWORKS AND
CONSTRUCTS
Models:abstract theoretical descriptions of the ability to communicate in a second
language.
Frameworks: selection of skills and abilities from a model that are relevant to a
specific assessment context.
Construct: generative blueprints or plans for a specific test which comprise the
components of a model.
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SPECIFICATIONS OF MODELS
McNamaraargues that all models of language ability have three dimensions
1. Model of knowledge: what it means to know a language.
2. Model of performance: all the factors that influence our ability to communicate.
3. Actual language use: use language in real-world situations.
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THREE MODELS OF
COMMUNICATIVECOMPETENCE
1. Canale and Swain`s Model of Communicative Competence
2. Bachman`s Model
3. Celce-Murcia`et al.`s Model
COMPONENTS
1. Communicative Competence:
Grammaticalcompetence: knowledge of formal features of language.
Sociolinguistic knowledge: the knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language use and rules of discourse.
Strategic competence: the knowledge of how to overcome problems when faced with difficulties in communication.
2. Actual communication:
the demonstration of knowledge in actual language performance
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CANALE AND SWAIN`SMODEL
AND TESTING
Inadequacy of paper and pencil tests to indicate language proficiency so tests
should contain both actual performance tasks as well as knowledge items.
Discrete point tests were seen as useful for some purposes as communicative
competence was viewed as knowledge.
Criteria could be developed for the evaluation of language performance at different
levels of proficiency.
THE COMPONENTS OF
REVISEDMODEL
1. Grammatical competence: remain unchanged from the definition provided by
Canale and Swain.
2. Sociolinguistic competence: refers to sociocultural rules and is the appropriateness
of meaning and form thus incorporating pragmatics. It also incorporates
proxemics and non-verbal behavior.
3. Strategic competence: it is expanded in this model to include strategies that
“enhance the effectiveness of communication.”
4. Discourse competence: the ability to produce a unified spoken and written text in
different genres using cohesion in form and coherence in meaning.
SPECIFICATIONS
Bachman`s model isdifferent from earlier models in two ways:
1. It clearly distinguishes between what constitutes knowledge and what constitutes
a skill(left unclear in Canale`s).
2. It explicitly attempts to characterize the processes by which the various
components interact with each other and with the context in which language use
occurs.
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THE COMPONENTS
1. Languagecompetence: formal knowledge of language
2. Strategic competence: the capacity for implementing the components of language
competence in contextualized communicative language use. It is affected by the
world knowledge of the language user.
3. Psychophysiological mechanisms: which enable the actual execution of language
as a physical phenomenon.
1-PRAGMATIC COMPETENCE
Acceptability ofutterances within specific contexts and rules of successful language
use. It has two components:
1. Illocutionary competence including:
Ideational functions
Manipulative functions
Heuristic functions
Imaginative functions
2. Speech acts.
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2- SOCIOLINGUISTIC
COMPETENCE
Sensitivity toor control of the conventions of language use that are determined by
the features of the specific language use context.
It enables us to perform language functions in ways that are appropriate to that
context.
Relevant components are:
a) Sensitivity to dialect or variety
b) Sensitivity to differences in register,
c) Sensitivity to naturalness
d) Cultural references and figures of speech
It is drivenby the strategic competence which is a psycholinguistic model of speech
production, made up of three components:
1. assessment component:
Identify information needed for realizing a communicative goal in a particular
context.
Decide which language components we have to achieve the goal.
Decide which abilities and knowledge we share with our interlocutor.
Evaluate the extent to which communication is successful
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2. Planning component:
Retrieveinformation from language competence.
Select modality or channel
Assemble an utterance.
3. Execution component:
Use psychological mechanisms to realize the utterance.
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BACHMAN AND PALMER`S
1996AMENDMENTS
The model was amended by Bachman and Palmer (1996) by:
The introduction of affective(non-cognitive) factors in language use.
Re-labelling knowledge structures as topical knowledge.
Reconceptualizing strategic competence as a set of metacognitive strategies.
IMPETUS FOR ANEW MODEL
The inadequacy of previous models to generate detailed content specifications for
CLT
Criticisms of Bachman (1990) and Bachman and Palmer (1996) model as relating
only to the context of language testing.
Being critical of the type of content specifications that have been developed on an
ad hoc basis for syllabus design, because they were not built on a model of
communicative competence.
Attempt to produce a detailed description of what communicative competence
entails in order to use the sub-components as a content base in syllabus design.
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COMPONENTS OF CELECE-
MURCIAET. AL.`S MODEL
It has five components as follows:
1. Discourse competence: remains a separate component as defined by Canale 1983
and reunites cohesion and coheernce.
2. Actional competence: knowledge required to understand communicative intent by
performing and interpreting speech acts and speech sets.
3. Sociocultural competence: knowledge related to the context that impacts upon
what is said and how it is said. Sociolinguistic competence is relabelled
sociocultural to better distinguish it from actional competence.
4. Linguistic competence: grammatical competence
5. Strategic competence: (unchanged) a set of skills for overcoming communication
problems or deficiencies in other competences.
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INTERACTIONAL
COMPETENCE
The notion ofinteractional competence minimally subsumes the following parts of
the model:
The conversational structure component of discourse competence.
Non-verbal communicative factors component of sociocultural competence.
All of the components of strategic competence.