问答题 What are linguistic competence and communicative competence?

【正确答案】Linguistic competence originally comes from Chomsky. It refers to the grammatical knowledge of the ideal language user and has nothing to do with the actual use of language in concrete situations. This concept of linguistic competence has been criticized for being too narrow and presenting a "Garden of Eden View".
To expand the concept of competence, D. H. Hymes proposes communicative competence, which has four components: possibility, feasibility, appropriateness and performance. In Hymes view, the learner acquires knowledge of sentences not only as grammatical but also as appropriate. It stresses the context in which an utterance occurs, which also leads to a concentration on discourse, in Hymes' term linguistic routines—the sequential organization beyond sentences.
【答案解析】[解析] 本题考查chomsky的语言能力与Hymes的交际能力,考生也应了解这两种能力所对应的教学大纲。