the ability to appropriately express and interpret concept, thoughts, feelings, facts and opinions in oral and written forms within a full range of societal and cultural context
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appropriacy
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speakers know what language is appropriate in a given situation
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systematic potential
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people possess a system for creating language
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discourse competence
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refers to the capacity to understand and produce different types of oral and written texts organized according to the communicative situations
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occurrence
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speakers know how often something is said in a language
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strategic competence
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make reference to the capability to use verbal and nonverbal communicative strategies to compensate interruptions in communication
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sociolinguistic competence
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is related to the ability to interact properly in different social contexts depending on social factors such as the participant's status and the degree of formality
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feasibility
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speakers know whether something is possible in a language
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grammatical competence
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is concerned with the mastery of the language code including features of the language such as morphosyntax, phonology orthography and lexicon