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competence
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com·pe·tence (kmp-tns)
n.
1. The quality of being competent or capable of performing an allotted function.
2. The quality or condition of being legally qualified to perform an act.
3. The mental ability to distinguish right from wrong and to manage one's own affairs.
4. The ability of a cell, especially a bacterial cell, to be genetically transformable.
5. The ability to respond immunologically to viruses or other antigenic agents.
6. Integrity, especially the normal tight closure of a cardiac valve.
competence,
n the state or condition of being sufficiently qualified to perform a particular action. To achieve this condition, one must possess the proper knowledge, skills, training, and professionalism.
competence,
n a measure of the degree of a person's ability to cope with all aspects of the environment.
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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.
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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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