A Study of Language Teaching from a Sociolinguistic Perspective of Communicative Competence/ Une Etude de la Langue D'enseignement a Partir D'une Perspective Sociolinguistique de la Competence Communicative (Report‪)‬

1. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Communicative competence was a term coined by D.H. Hymes to contrast Chomsky's theory of competence. Chomsky held that linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener in a completely homogeneous speech community, who knows its language perfectly and is unaffected by such grammatically irrelevant conditions as memory limitation, distractions, shifts of attention and interest, and errors (random or characteristic) in applying his knowledge of the language in actual performance. (Chomsky 1965).