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Without a doubt normal developing children achieve perfect mastery of their first language, yet they are not overtly taught the systematic rules and patterns of language and do not make mistakes. Amazingly, a child learning his first language acquires the rules of language that had not been instruct...

Communicative competence requires more than just the ability to form grammatically correct sentences. To successfully communicate (performance) in the target language, the second language learner must acquire the grammatical competence as well as the pragmatics (what is meant by what is said) of the...