【正确答案】 The goal of Communicative Language Teaching is to develop students' communicative competence, which includes both the knowledge about the language and the knowledge about how to use the language appropriately in communicative situations.
   The five main components of communicative competence are linguistic competence, pragmatic competence, discourse competence, strategic competence and fluency. Linguistic competence is concerned with knowledge of the language itself, its form and meaning. Pragmatic competence is concerned with the appropriate use of the language in social context. Discourse competence refers to one's ability to create coherent written text or conversation and the ability to understand them. Strategic competence refers to strategies one employs when there is communication breakdown due to lack of resources. Fluency refers to one's ability to "link units of speech together with facility and without strain or inappropriate slowness or undue hesitation".