Questão 2604291

Read the text below to answer questions 47 and 48.

(…) strategic competence is described as the verbal and nonverbal communication strategies that may be called into action to compensate for breakdown in communication due to performance variables or due to insufficient competence. In other words, strategic competence can be paraphrased as the strategies that one uses to compensate for imperfect knowledge of rules – or limiting factors in their application such as fatigue, distractions, and inattention. In short, it is the competence underlying our ability to make repairs, to cope with imperfect knowledge, and to sustain communication through paraphrase, circumlocution, repetition, hesitation, avoidance, and guessing, as well as shifts in register and style. (Adapted from Brown, D. H. Principles of language learning and teaching. Longman. 2000. P. 220).

Strategic competence is one of four types of competence that compose what is known as communicative competence. The other three are grammatical competence, discourse competence and sociolinguistic competence. Examples of grammatical competence can be found in which alternative?