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Competence Vs Performance

Competence refers to a person's underlying linguistic ability and knowledge of the rules of a language system, including the ability to understand and create new sentences. Performance is the real world use of language through speaking and listening, which may reflect competence but can also include errors. Competence represents the ideal knowledge of a language internally, while performance is the external production that can be impacted by memory, attention, and other cognitive factors.

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Competence Vs Performance

Competence refers to a person's underlying linguistic ability and knowledge of the rules of a language system, including the ability to understand and create new sentences. Performance is the real world use of language through speaking and listening, which may reflect competence but can also include errors. Competence represents the ideal knowledge of a language internally, while performance is the external production that can be impacted by memory, attention, and other cognitive factors.

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Competence VS Performance

COMPETENCE
Competence is a persons underlying (subconscious) linguistic ability to create and understand sentences, including sentences they have never heard before.
Competence refers to the knowledge that native speakers have of their language as system of abstract formal relations.

PERFORMANCE
Performance is the real world linguistic output. Performance refers to what we do when we speak or listen, that is, the infinite varied individual acts of verbal behavior with their irregularities, inconsistencies and errors. May accurately reflect competence, but it also may include speech errors.

COMPETENCE vs PERFORMANCE
Competence,

being an ideal, is located as a psychological or mental property. This is in contrast to performance, which refers to an actual event. Chomsky argues that only under an idealized situation whereby the speaker-hearer is unaffected by grammatically irrelevant conditions such as memory limitations and distractions will performance be a direct reflection of competence.

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