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Abstract: The communicative competence represents the knowledge that the participants in a communicative instance need to interact and their capacity of applying this knowledge into practice, which means, using the language adequately, in various contexts. Thus, in order to ensure its formative projection, there is need for establishing a definition area. The communicative competence has known, throughout three decades, various definitions, from the linguistic competence, in Chomsky's studies, to Hymes's, Canale& Swan's, Widowson's or Bachman's models. The present article aims at reviewing these models, for sensibly projecting the communicative competence within the institutionalized educational framework.
Keywords: communicative competence, linguistic competence, strategic competence.
1. INTRODUCTION
The term "competence" has just recently entered the psychology lexis, for a long period, only such terms as 'aptitudes', 'skills' or 'abilities' being used. As a set of projected latencies, competences have met, later on, the roles associated to specific statuses, provening from the area of sociology and together with them defining the dynamic part of those statuses. The term 'competence' has emerged from the fertile field of communication theory and then it started being used by other social sciences, thus contributing to the career designing. From a practical perspective, the term has become acknowledged through the psychology of labor and the human resources management, it being a decisive factor in designing educational models.
Coming from the Latin 'competens', meaning 'competent', which was itself derived from 'competere', a compound word consisting of the stem com = together and the verb petere = to follow, competence, with its current meaning in the lexis of psychology, has only started being studied since the late decades of the last century. In fact, the import of the term 'competence' in the area of psychology and psycho-pedagogy, and further on in the human resource management was possible due to the Chomskyan theory.
The term 'competence' has started to built up its own status within psychology, defining the capacity, skill or ability to do something correctly or efficiently, or the scope of a person's or a group's ability or knowledge" [1]. Recently, the term has been more and more intensely exploited, to such extent that the Great Dictionary of Psychology, published by Larousse expands its meaning area, defining it 'in its ontogenesis', as an 'assembly...