Developing Communicative Competence Through Discourse Study

Abstract

Communicative competence consists of at least four components: linguistic or grammatical, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competence. Thereafter, competence could be realized through discourse. Discourse itself in one dimension is divided into written and spoken discourse. These four components are the bridge of correlating language with social context. The purpose of this research is to find out the communicative competence that are shown from the context of situation, culture and ideology from two texts entitled PAN Rejects DPRs New Building Construction Plan and New DPR Building Project Continues. The second is to provide phenomenon description that occurred on those two texts. Key words : communicative competence, discourse study, context of situation, culture and ideolog