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Dewi Martila

Atik Dzuhriyatul H

Eni Hasnaul Faiq

Communicative Competence

Communicative Competence is a construct that has been a topic of interest for at least four decades, recent trends have put less emphasis on structural and cognitive characteristics of communication and more on the myriad social, cultural, and pragmatic implications of what it means to communicate in second language. This new wave of interest brings social constructivist perspectives into central focus and draws our attention to language as interactive communication among individuals, each with a sociocultural identity.

Defining Communication Competence

                The term communication competence (CC) was coined by Dell Hymes (1072, 1967), a sociolinguist who was convinced that Chomsky’s (1965) nation of competence was to limited. CALP (cognitive/academic language proficiency) is that dimension of proficiency in which the learner manipulates or reflects upon the surface features of language outside of the immediate interpersonal context. It is what learners often use in classroom exercises and tests that focus on form. BICS (basic interpersonal communicative skill) is the communicative capacity that all children acquire in order to be able to function in daily interpersonal exchange. CALP and BICS in the form of context-reduced and context-embedded communication. A good share of classroom, school oriented language in context reduced, while face to face communication with people is context embedded.

The last two defined the functional aspects of communication.

1.       Grammatical competence is that aspect of CC that encompasses “knowledge of lexical items and of rules or morphology, syntax, sentence grammar semantics, and phonology.

2.       Discourse competence, the complement of grammatical competence in many ways.

3.       Sociolinguistic competence is the knowledge of the sociocultural rules of language and of discourse.

4.       Strategic competence, a construct that is exceedingly complex.

Strategic competence occupies a special place in an understanding of communication. Definition of strategies competence that are limited to the notion of “compensatory strategies” fall short of encompassing the full spectrum of the construct.

Language competence

 Language competence defined by two there are:

1.       Organizational competence: Grammatical competence and Textual competence.

2.       Pragmatic competence: illocutionary competence and sociolinguistic competence.