language competence
1.The development of language competence can be implemented from the perspective of syllabus design.
2.Rote Learning and ELT in China Classroom— On the nurture of language competence in English classroom
3.The results reveal that, compared with Australian students, Chinese university students have stronger motivation for foreign language learning and have more optimistic attitude towards their own foreign language competence.
4.What better way to encourage third-language competence than to make it a trade-off for alleviating the pressure to study Chinese?
5.In a TV Forum on "Language Competence and Multilingual Societies" on 24 November 1979, Mr Lee further spelt out the specific goals of the Speak Mandarin Campaign:
6.In order to meet the requirements of the rapid expanding and fast growing ofmodern international shipping industry, the International Maritime Organization (IMO)carried out an all-around revision of "Standards of Training, Certification andWatchkeeping for Seafarers 1978" (STCW convention) in 1995, which has especiallyemphasized "the communication (i.e. foreign language competence) among themultinational crew".
7.In a TV Forum on "Language Competence and Multilingual Societies" on 24 November 1979, Mr Lee further spelt out the specific goals of the Speak Mandarin Campaign:"We should try within 5 years to make all the young [Chinese] ... to drop the use of dialect; speak in Mandarin, unless it is to their grandparents.
9.As for competence on the one hand, adequate language ability or communicative competence does not guarantee good performance;
10.Chomsky made a distinction between linguistic competence and linguistic performance. He thought the object of language study was linguistic competence while grammar was the description of linguistic competence. It did not do research on linguistic performance.
