Zukhruf Umul Pratiwi _ Abdul Gani

Name: Zukhruf Umul Pratiwi

            Abdul Gani

DEFINITION

1.      Hymes : Communicative competence as that aspect of our competence that enables us within specific contexts.

2.  Savignon (1983, p. 9) noted that communicative competence is relative, not absolute, and depends on the cooperation of all the participants involved”

3.   Communicative Competence is including of “linguistic and communicative”.

4.   Functional aspects of communication

                 a.                 Grammatical competence

b.                Discourse competence

c.                 Sociolinguistic competence

d.                Strategic competence

Second language learner need to understand the purpose of communicative, developing an awareness of what the purpose of a communicative act is how to achieve that purpose through linguistic forms.

a.  Organizational Competence  

   Grammatical Competence                                   :     Vocabulary

   Morphology

   Syntax

   Phonology/ Craphonoly

 Textual Competence                                             :      Cohesion

                                                                                      Rhetorical Organization

b.   Pragmatic Competence

Elocutionary Competence                                 :      Ideational Function

                                                                                Manipulative Function

                                                                                Heuristic Function

                                                                                Imaginative Function

Sociolinguistic Competence                             :      Sensitivity to Dialect or Variety

                                                                                Sensitivity to Register

                                                                                Sensitivity to Naturalness

Cultural References and Figures of Speech

LANGUAGE FUNCTION

Language functions refer to the purposes in which we use language to communicate. We use language for a variety of formal and informal purposes, and specific grammatical structures and vocabulary are often used with each language function.