Becoming Bilingual: A View Towards Communicative Competence
Lilla Musyahda
The
phenomenon of foreign language mastery shall always be the main issue in the
pedagogy since it has numerous advantages in human life, especially in terms of
economic value. The definition of bilingualism is connected with the speaking
of two languages or expression in two languages and it can be used to describe
societies or individuals (Lyon, 1995). The way
that a bilingual adapts to a certain condition leads to a certain phenomenon,
which is quite interesting to analyse. The texture of the bilingual’s
creativity is essentially the result of the process of translation and transcreation, and insightful approaches to stylistic – its
theory and methodology must be taken into consideration. When people speak more
than one language, they may have different levels of proficiency in each of the
languages, and use them for very different social purposes and in different
situations. The languages that a bilingual speaks affect each other in various
ways, so much that there is a regular study of what happens when one language
comes into contact with another. In educational setting, it is important to
know how a bilingual’s first language may affect the function of other
languages. The article will discuss the phenomenon of bilingual and the
implication towards communicative competence which would consist, minimally, of
four areas of knowledge and skills: grammatical competence, sociolinguistic
competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence.
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Musyahda, L. (2002). Becoming bilingual: A view towards communicative competence.
TEFLIN Journal, 13(1), 12-21.
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