Apology strategies produced by basic nonnative language learners of English
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2013
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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"The knowledge a native speaker of a language as well as a learner possess, develop,
acquire, use or lose, is what in the linguistic field is known as communicative competence.
This term is mainly associated with Chomsky, who considered it as “the native speaker’s
knowledge of his own language” (Paultston, 1992, p. 39). It is the internalized set of rules
or the system that enables the speaker the creation of new grammatical sentences and the
understanding of the sentences addressed to him, in which an individual performs the
speech act based on the knowledge he already possess and is able to communicate not in a
proper but in an understandable way. Taking into account this, linguistic competence is the
ability to perform, understand and being understandable. According to Hymes, who did not
only added other points to Chomskian conception of competence, but contradicted
Chomsky’s position, communicative competence “is the knowledge of what is possible,
feasible, appropriate and actually done” (Johnson, K. & Johnson, H, 1998, p. 62). It is more
than grammatical competence, but also it is the ability to use language in a variety of
communicative situations."
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