The Importance of Linguistic Competence in Teaching English as a Foreign Language

In this paper it has been chosen to examine currently accepted principles of “communicative approaches” second language in the theo-ry languages. The examination theoretical bases led us question some existing principles, which is consistent with a more comprehensive framework for consideration linguistic competence. general background competence studied by many scien-tists. notion “linguistic competence” developed years and we will suggest directions research that bear either directly goal research. Linguistic system knowledge possessed distinguished from per-formance. It way used communication. Noam Chomsky introduced concept his elaboration generative grammar, where widely adopted only level studied. According Chomsky, ideal enables speakers produce understand an infinite number sentences their language, distinguish gram-matical ungrammatical sentences. 1970 En-glish was teaching foreign language. As part communicative scientist as Haims (1972), Kanal Swan (1980) Alkon (2000) worked on works.