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@ What does it mean to know a language?
@ Do you think that the language learner would be successful in using the
language?
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@ There two types of language knowledge:
1. Linguistic knowledge
2. Communicative knowledge
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1. èossibility
2. Feasibility
3. Appropriateness
4. attestedness
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@ A competent speaker knows what is formally possible in a
language.
@ Example:
´Me sleep nowµ
It breaks the rules of the language and present a structure that is
not acceptable in the English language.
´I am going to go to sleepµ
Is the same expression but this time it follows the rules.
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@ A communicative competent person knows what is feasible.
This is a psychological concept concerned with limitations to
what can be processed in the mind.