Chapter 2: Overview of Communication Development

Question 1

communicative competence

Answer 1

ability to communicate successfully with other members of his/her language community
knowing how, when and where to speak

Question 2

comunicative performance

Answer 2

speakers actual speech behavior
knowing which register/dialect to use
performance errors

Question 3

phonological competence

Answer 3

ability to recognize and produce distinctive meaningful phonemes in a language

Question 4

grammatical competence

Answer 4

recognize and produce syntactic and morphological structures of native language

Question 5

lexical competence

Answer 5

vocabulary
compromise language of a speaker use and produce words

Question 6

discourse competence

Answer 6

relay information fluently and coherently

Question 7

functional competence

Answer 7

ability to communicate for variety of purposes

Question 8

sociolinguistic competence

Answer 8

knowing how to talk to a baby vs interpret social meaning that language conveys and choose appropriate register

Question 9

interactional competence

Answer 9

implying implicit rules
knowing how to interact in diff. communicative situatiosn

Question 10

cultural competence

Answer 10

ability to function effectively in cultural context