4. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.

What did classical authors think about "communication"

• Communication happened regardless of the culture

• For communication to happen, there should be a common code: language

• Communication depends on many factors

Answer explanation

Sure! We are talking about CLASSICAL AUTHORS.

Who was the first one who talked about communicative concept?

• Hymes

• Chomsky

• Saussure

According to Chomsky, linguistic abilities depended on...

• Competence (the way someone communicated)

  Performance (extralinguistic factors)

• Competence (actual knowledge of the language)

  Performance (the use of this knowledge)

• Communicative competence alone

The concept of "communicative compentece"

• appeared because of Chomsky "simple" view of communication

• depends on just one aspect

Dell Hymes was the first to speak about "communicative competence". For him, communicative competence included

• Grammatical and sociolinguistic concepts

• Sociolinguistic and contextual concepts

• Grammatical, sociolinguistic and contextual

Answer explanation

It was not only to speak correctly, but also to take into account when, where and to whom.

For Halliday...

• Language was the only form of communication*

• Language was a "social instrument"

• Language was based on gestures

For Halliday, the acquisition of ************** was an important factor in strategic competence for second language learners.

• styles and registers, including verbal and non-verbal elements

• Language grammar rules

For Canale and Swaine, linguistic competence...

• is based only on contextual elements and social interaction is an isolated part of it

• is acquired in social interaction and it involves a high degree of unpredictability and creativity.

In Canale and Swain's theory, the communicative competence is composed by different subcategories.

One of them is "the ability to use language in order to achieve a unified spoken or written text in different genres"

• grammatical

• discourse

• sociolinguistic

• strategic

Which two subcategories in Canale's model of communicative competence has to do with FUNCTIONAL ASPECTS?

• SOCIOLINGUISTIC

• DISCOURSE

• GRAMMATICAL

• STRATEGIC