Bo Y John

University of Phoenix Material

Linguistic Competence and Performance Chart

Using the text for this course, the University Library, the Internet, and/or other resources complete the followingchart. In the chart, decide whether the following situations are examples of competence or performance. Each situation must be one or the other; you cannot choose both. In the appropriate column,explain why you think the situation shows competence or performance.


|Situation |Competence |Performance|
|A five-year-old child hears conversations |The child is able to understand said words | |
|among adults and understands words like |in hisnative language based on | |
|debatable and discussion. But, she can’t |conversations he overhears. However, he has||
|pronounce the words correctly. |not been exposed on first hand. | |
|An English teacher visits her elderly ||Even if the English teacher knows the rules|
|grandfather. In conversations with him, she| |and regulation ofthe English language, |
|uses words like ain’t and phrases like | |when with her grandmother, she chooses to |
|fixin’ to.| |use colloquialism to identify the |
| ||grandmother. |
|A 10-year-old child pronounces the word |Child is familiar with the native term. His| |
|specific as “pacific.”...