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Publication details [#5033]

Hymes, Dell H. 1971. Competence and performance in linguistic theory. In Huxley, Renira and Elisabeth Ingram, eds. Language acquisition: Models and methods. Academic Press. pp. 3–24.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | competence vs. performance | social inequality

Annotation

H. argues that the notions of competence and performance do not provide a satisfactory basis for approaching problems (such as advantaged vs disadvantaged children) where the social-cultural factors are very salient.

Translations

Ravazzoli, Flavia. 1979. La competenza communicativa. In Ravazzoli, Flavia, ed. Universali linguistici. Feltrinelli. pp. 212–243.

. 1978. Kompetenz un Performanz in der Sprachtheorie.

Reprints

Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson. 1979. On communicative competence. In Brumfit, Christopher J. and Keith Johnson, eds. The communicative approach to language teaching. Oxford University Press. pp. 5–26.