Linguistic
Competence
Lexical Competence , has a very basic range of simple
expressions about personal details and needs of a concurred tape. Knowledge of
and ability to use the vocabulary of a language consist of lexical elements and
grammatical elements.
Grammatical competence, may be defined as a knowledge of
and ability to use the grammatical resources of a language. Students can
control a narrow repertoire dealing with concrete everyday need.
Semantic competence, deals with
the learners awareness and control of the organization of meaning.
Phonological competence, involves a knowledge of and skill
in the perception and production of ( phonemes, allophones, sentence phonetics,
the phonetic composition of words, intonation, stress, word tones, vowels
reduction, assimilation)
Orthographic competence, involves a knowledge of and skill
in the perception and production of the symbols of which written texts are
composed.
Orthoepic competence, need to able to produce correct pronunciation from the written form,
knowledge of spelling conventions, ability to consult to dictionary, knowledge
of implications of written forms particularly punctuations marks for
phrasing and intonation, ability to
resolve ambiguity.
Sociolinguistic Competence is concerned with the knowledge and
skills required to deal with the social dimension of language use.
Pragmatic Competence are concerned with the
user/learner’s knowledge of the principles according to which messages are a)
organized, structured and arranged(Discourse competence) use to perform communicative
functions (functional
competence) c) sequenced according to interactional and
transactional schemata( design competence)
