domingo, 2 de octubre de 2011

Communicative competence: A pedagogically motivated model with content specifications

     This article had little information, but the information presented is very important because it tells us about the changing views of Chomsky's competence, Dell Hymes, Canale and Swain. Communicative competence is very important in teaching languages. As teachers we need to integrate communicative competence in language teaching, to develop and define the main aspects of communicative language use. Letting ourselves for be carried so communicative competence mean  purposes of study, and the Changing views of Chomsky's competence, Dell Hymes, Canale and Swain.

      From the perspective of Chomsky's linguistic competence is defined as the mastery of the principles governing language, and actuation as the manifestation of the underlying rules of language use. According to Dell Hymes, communicative competence is related to know "when to speak, when not, and talk about, with whom, when, where, in what form", ie it is the ability to form sentences that are not only grammatically correct but socially appropriate. Canale and Swain described the communicative competence as a set of four interrelated skills: linguistic competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence and strategic competence. Celco-Murcia, Dörnyei and Thurrell, focused on the area of ​​sociolinguistic competence, although the model presented CMDT which is based on linguistic competence, strategic competence, socio-cultural competence, actional competence and discourse competence.

     If we got the information in our knowledge and applying it in the classroom, we can obtain better results with our students.