As basic requirements, professional sci-tech translators need in-depth knowledge of the source language (including an awareness of its specific rhetorical patterns and discourse structures), a good eye for detail, native or near-native competence in the target language, a flair for writing, and highly developed information-gathering skills.
Peter Trudgill argues against the formation of diasystems that are not cognitively real and implies that polylectal grammars that are not part of native speakers' competence are illegitimate.
"A student could learn 10 a day for years and still not approach native-speaker competence".
Is instant availability of native-like competence the only standard for "knowing" a language?
They attempted to describe the "rules" that define a native speaker's "competence" (unconscious knowledge of the language) and account for all instances of the speaker's "performance" (strategies the individual uses in actual sentence production).
To understand how Hox operate in vivo, we mapped Meis, Pbx, and Hoxa2 binding in the native area of competence of Hoxa2, the IIBA.
Deep cannulation of the common bile duct (CBD) in patients with native papillary anatomy can be used as a marker of competence at ERCP.
The use of Italian in schools and mass media is jeopardizing the bilingual competence of native speakers of all dialects of Sardinian except Campidanese.
Are their business competences higher than those of native entrepreneurs in the Netherlands (where competences refer to organizational and management skills, proper strategies for coping with market and technical uncertainties, an innovative attitude associated with 'animal spirits', and network participation; see also Cooke and Morgan 1998;Whitley 2000)?
It should also be borne in mind that although Arabic is the patient's native language, his level of competence in the two languages before he sustained brain damage was almost equivalent.
