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Theory of Language Curriculum and Instruction A compulsory course for MA program in English education Hangzhou Normal University Liu Qixuan Communicative competence and Communicative Language Teaching Learning points: 1. Communicative competence 2. Communicative principles 3. Features of communicative activities 4. Skill teaching in CLT I. Communicative Competence What does the sentence mean? I’m sorry I’m busy. One language form may express a number of communicative functions. If you don’t want someone to go shopping with you, what you may say to him/her? One language function can be expressed by a variety of language forms. To communicate successfully, what abilities do we need? . Abiliyt to apply and use grammatical rules . Ability to form correct utterances .ability to know how to use these utterances appropriately Comepetence Ferdinand de Saussure Langue (French, meaning language) parole (meaning speech) Chomsky produced the terms of Competence and Performance Competence: The shared knowledge of the ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community. Such underlying knowledge enables a language user to understand and produce an infinite set of sentences out of a finite set of rules (according to transformational grammar) Peformance: The process of applying such underlying knowledge the the actual language use. Hymes’ communicative competence Hymes (1972) coined the term communicative competence: “ a knowledge of the rules for understanding and producing both the refrential and social meaning of language” What is communication? Communication is a two-way process in which there is an exchange and progression of thoughts, feelings or ideas towards a mutually accepted goal or direction. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /wiki/Communication) Communication is a process whereby information is encoded and imparted by a sender to a receiver via a channel/m