Sentence examples for competence in language from inspiring English sources

"Bachman (1990) composed a general interactionalist L2 [second/foreign language] construct definition, which includes 'both knowledge, or competence, and the capacity for implementing, or executing that competence in language use' in context (Bachman 1990: 84)" (Chapelle 1998, p. 44).

In turn, students of teachers holding progressive, child-centered beliefs tend to display greater motivation for learning, lower anxiety, and higher competence in language and problem-solving than their peers in more authoritative classroom settings (Stipek and Byler 1997).

Regarding voice recognition, 7-month-olds detected changes in voice only when the language was in their native tongue (Johnson, Westrek, Nazzi, & Cutler, 2011), suggesting that voice recognition develops in pace with increasing competence in language processing.

People may have competence in a language and yet know nothing about its written form.

In 1998, he was appointed, again by Blunkett, to chair the committee to devise a test of minimum competence in English language and British culture which immigrants should undergo before being given permanent residence.

It is a required school subject from the primary grades on up, although only children who go beyond those grades, and especially those who attend elite schools, gain significant competence in the language.

To many English speakers it seems ludicrous that the criterion of competence in a language should be strict adherence to grammar-book rules rather than nativelike performance, but in Romance countries a foreigner is often frowned upon if he permits himself the "negligence" of native usage, rather than the more stilted correct expression.

Competence in the language of law and expertise in local law is essential.

This project aims to investigate the potential of Web 2.0 tools in the development of communicative competence in English language amongst undergraduate students.

We went out with that and found there was really a very big gap between competence in the language and assignments in the field.

These social rules for which ways of using language are considered appropriate in certain situations and how utterances are to be understood in relation to their context vary between communities, and learning them is a large part of acquiring communicative competence in a language.