SDLC 105 Journal #7

[Byambaa Khurelbaatar]

The chapter on communicative competence had many new information that is useful to a new language learner like everyone in this class. I think it's good to know that we need basic language skills in order to interact with others in social situations and face to face communications. The cognitive academic language proficiency or (CALP) refers to formal academic learning which is used to discuss the language proficiency levels of students who are in the process of acquiring a new language. This seems to fit us very well because what we are all trying to do is teach ourselves a new language with the help of a partner to re-enforce some things. I'm sure all of us took on this class to become somewhat proficient in the languages that we chose to teach ourselves. The four subcategories of communicative competence also are very helpful to understand how to efficiently communicate with others. These four are grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence. This is important because we must be able to use grammatically correct forms of words, construct full meaningful sentences/phrases, use appropriate social meaning, and to manipulate language to meet communicative goals. Overall, this read was informative and definitely helpful in our language learning process.