Communicative competence - is essentially the ability to use the linguistic system in both language production and comprehension., Formal theories of language - Provide a precise description of unconscious knowledge that speakers have about what is possible and not possible in their languages., Generative theory - Is a theory of grammatical competence, in other words, the cognitive representation of the grammar of a language., Essentials of generative theory - Grammatical competence consists of a lexicon and a computational system, which is best understood as a system that combines elements from the lexicon into clauses., Psycholinguistic research - Has been a key element in explaining how speakers use grammatical competence because, processing can involve the local application of global grammatical principles., Processing - Involves accessing grammatical competence in real time and as such plays an important role in comprehension. ,

Communicative competence in a second language

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