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Competence
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Competence
Sufficient ability or fitness for one's needs. The necessary abilities to be qualified to achieve a certain goal or complete a project.

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For ultimately, the question of language choice has a lot more to do with self-concept and one's affective relations to a language than with linguistic competence.
Communicative Linguistic Competence was evidenced by comparable memory for events (B&P) heard in English (E) versus Greek (G) among first (3.
However, learners are given new identities and classifications such as 'advanced learners', 'intermediate learners', 'beginning learners' and so on, which all signal to the school communities that they are students who lack linguistic competence and therefore susceptible to subordination and "taking a less active and less powerful role in oral practices" (Toohey, 2003 p.
 
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