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linguistic competence

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Noun1.linguistic competence - (linguistics) a speaker's implicit, internalized knowledge of the rules of their language (contrasted with linguistic performance)
competence, competency - the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
linguistics - the scientific study of language


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For ultimately, the question of language choice has a lot more to do with self-concept and one's affective relations to a language than with linguistic competence.
Communicative Linguistic Competence was evidenced by comparable memory for events (B&P) heard in English (E) versus Greek (G) among first (3.
However, learners are given new identities and classifications such as 'advanced learners', 'intermediate learners', 'beginning learners' and so on, which all signal to the school communities that they are students who lack linguistic competence and therefore susceptible to subordination and "taking a less active and less powerful role in oral practices" (Toohey, 2003 p.
 
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