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Competence and Performance

The document discusses the concepts of competence and performance as proposed by linguists such as Chomsky, Hymes, Oller, and Saussure. It examines the distinction between competence, referring to underlying linguistic knowledge, and performance, referring to observable language use. It also discusses how different models and theories have addressed or made reference to the competence-performance distinction in the context of language testing.

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Competence and Performance

The document discusses the concepts of competence and performance as proposed by linguists such as Chomsky, Hymes, Oller, and Saussure. It examines the distinction between competence, referring to underlying linguistic knowledge, and performance, referring to observable language use. It also discusses how different models and theories have addressed or made reference to the competence-performance distinction in the context of language testing.

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Elana Shohamy

Guillian Brown

Noam Chomsky Competence refers a state but not a process to the underlying knowlegde of a idealized native speaker of a language in the area or grammar. Distingued between the speaker heares's knowlegde of his language. Performance implies actual performance and not the realization of ability and potential. Performance the actual use of language in concrete situations. Chomsky has a paradox position when represents as central is language is an abstract set of organizing principles which both define an area of human cognition, and specific language faculty and determine the parameters of

She emphatizes about concepts of Chomsky, Hymes and Oller. She examines the distinction between competence and performance and the adress of it in language testing. She studies the diferents models and theories. "Competence" as a construct in a theory is important, because it refers to unobserved , underliying knowledge, while performance reflects overt behaviours, dependent on tasks ad rating scales. The performance based task testing movement made no reference to competence.

He consideres the Lyons's attempt about linguistic competence is knowlegde of a particular language; he doesn't suggest that linguistic competence is all that is necessary for a speakerlistener. Talks about variability in the linguistic of adults and children in the first language acquisition. The diference about native speakers and second language speaker. Each language competence is structured completely independently of knowledge of other languages or of the contexts in which language is used.

Saussure

Competence knowlegde that native speakers have to their language as a system of abstract formal relations, and performance their actual behaviour. Competence is a socially shared, common kowledge. Saussure has similar dicthonomy of knowledge and a similar demarcation of the scope of linguistics enquiry.

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