2nd Assignment - CMD

Model of communicative competence presented by Celce-Murcia et al (1955:10) as follows:

Ø Discourse competence is major competencies pursued by language education.

Ø Discourse competence is ability to use language in communication. Discourse competence can only be gained if students acquire competencies supporting such as Sociocultural competence, Linguitic competence and actional competence.

Ø Sociocultural competence is competence to understand the sociocultural in an area.

Example:   If we go to  one area and we don’t know their social and cultural, it can makes misunderstanding. When meeting, usually Indonesian people said, “where are you going?” and people answered it. That’s Indonesian habit. But in western, the answer of that question is, “It’s not your business!”.

 

Ø Linguistic competence  is ability to use grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and spelling.

Example:  I speak to my friend. I have to talk using good grammar, good pronunciation and also the word that my friend would understand.

 Ø Actional competence that is how the act says, either spoken or written language.

Example:  Manner of speaking. How I talk to older people than me, different from talking to someone younger or the same age. As well as with people who are familiar with me and the people I've just met.

 Ø Strategic competence

Strategic competence outside the triangle because it just support the major strategic of the diagram. It’s just method that is used to achieve the learning objectives.

Example:   I want to say the word, but i forget it, so I can change in a different word that has same meaning with it. For example, I want to say I need a pen, I can say I need something to write.

The strategic competence may come from:

1.       Ourselves

2.       Others who have better competence such as teacher, friend, etc.

3.       Media such as book, internet, newspaper, etc.

4.       Dictionary