ABSTRACT
According to Littlewood, an English linguist, a person’s communicative competence can be summarized as four broad domains of skills: Firstly, the learner must attain as high a degree as possible of linguistic competence. Secondly, the learner must distinguish between the forms that he has mastered as part of his linguistic competence, and the communicative functions that they perform. Thirdly, the learner must develop skills and strategies for using language to communicate meaning as effectively as possible in concrete situations. Fourthly, the learner must become aware of the social meaning of language forms.
