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3. Important Vocabulary

 Communicative language competence: “knowledge of not only if something is
formally possible in a language, but also whether it is feasible, appropriate, or
done in a particular speech community.
 Educational background: includes issues related to school and instruction
 Educational domain: is concerned with the learning context where the aim is to
acquire specific knowledge or skills
 Expository texts: are the ones which inform, describe or explain something and
include autobiographies, short descriptions, media articles, etc.
 Informational texts: texts designed to convey information about something
rather than to tell or advance a narrative they are characterized by the following
features: (1) their primary purpose is to convey information about the natural
and social world, (2) they typically address whole classes of things in a timeless
way and (3) they come in many different formats.
 Linguistic competence: “includes lexical, phonological, syntactical knowledge
and skills and other dimensions of language as a system”
 Narrative texts: a genre of writing that entertains or tells a story with text types
that include personal narratives.
 Personal background: includes personal identification; house, home, and
environment; daily life; free time and entertainment; and relations with other
people.
 Personal domain: comprises family relations and individual social practices
 Pragmatic competence: “concerned with the functional use of linguistic
resources”
 Procedural texts: a genre of writing that explains the instructions or directions
to complete a task with text types that include recipes and ‘how to’ instructions.
 Public domain: refers to everything connected with ordinary social interaction
 Repair: a term for ways in which errors, unintended forms, or
misunderstandings are corrected by speakers or others during conversation.
 Social background: includes public entertainment, travel, health and body care,
shopping, food and drink, and services
 Sociolinguistic competence: “refers to the sociocultural conditions of language
use”
 Transactional texts: are texts that serve for communication of ideas and
information between individuals with text types that include: business letters,
friendly emails, interviews, invitations, postcards, weblog entries, etc.
 Vocational domain: also called “occupational domain”, it embraces everything
concerned with people’s activities and relations in the exercise of their
occupations.

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