Significance of Linguistic Competence over Communicative Competence enlightened through the devices of Discourse Analysis

Abstract

In the arena of language teaching, discourse analysis provides both the teachers and learners with adequate and practical knowledge, as well as, makes learners linguistically efficient. In this paper achievement of language competence is highlighted over the efficiency of communicative competence. We aim at focusing on majoring learner’s level of competence in using language by showing command over four skills of target language. From the perspective of linguistic competence only achieving the communicative competence should not be the goal of SLA classroom. In this research paper it is depicted how the teachers adopt the techniques of discourse analysis to propel the students’ motivation in using the target language as a conceptual whole. This paper confidently argues in favor of teaching language as a linguistic phenomenon which is the primal proof of communicative competence. Functional and notional usage of target language can guarantee a rate of success that is manageable at an optimum better to say minimum level. As language is absolutely a social and psychological phenomenon, so the ultimate reach of learning a language should be authentically justified from the point of view of gaining soul command over structural ,as well as, conceptual meaning of the target language.