The developing grammatical competence in teaching Russian as a foreign language student at the stage of pre-higher education training is one most important tasks facing linguodidactics. success mastering depends on level competence. Knowledge grammar contributes to better language. article defines terminological status competence, examines its correlation with such categories linguistic communi...

Conceiving grammaticality as gradient poses problems for those traditional conceptions of grammar which assume that linguistic expressions can only be either grammatical or ungrammatical. That a sentence is, for instance, “grammatical to 75%” is a nonsensical statement from this point of view. In this tradition, generative grammar assumes the native speaker’s linguistic competence to be the sys...

A number of disparate approaches to language, ranging from cognitive linguistics to stochastic implementations of optimality theory, have challenged the classical distinction between knowledge of language and use of language. Supporters of such approaches point to the functional motivation of grammatical structure, language users’ sensitivity to the frequency of occurrence of grammatical elemen...

This study determined the communicative competence of college English language teachers Northern Iloilo Polytechnic State College (NIPSC) in 5th District through a researcher-developed instrument which had undergone validity and reliability testing. Utilizing mixed method approach with forty-five (45) who were chosen complete enumeration, result showed that respondents’ level areas grammatical,...

A new framework for the study of the human moral faculty is currently receiving much attention: the so-called 'universal moral grammar' framework. It is based on an intriguing analogy, first pointed out by Rawls, between the study of the human moral sense and Chomsky's research program into the human language faculty. To assess UMG, we ask: is moral competence modular? Does it have an underlyin...

This study attempted to determine the grammar learning strategy and grammatical competence level of 2nd year 3rd pre-service teachers. Additionally, this aimed investigate relationship between their usage level. To end, employed descriptive-correlational research method. Data were collected through a questionnaire facilitated in Google Forms. The study's results revealed that, first, teachers h...

In this chapter we explore the possibility that within Optimality Theory, a single syntactic grammar directly yields not only competence theoretic results on the grammatical distributions of elements, but also performance theoretic results on relative preferences when processing sentences with various syntactic ambiguities. Whereas the competence theory applies the grammar at the level of an en...

This study presents a novel method that measures English language learners’ syntactic competence towards improving automated speech scoring systems. In contrast to most previous studies which focus on the length of production units such as the mean length of clauses, we focused on capturing the differences in the distribution of morpho-syntactic features or grammatical expressions across profic...

In this chapter we present the initial stages of work that attempts to assess the ‘psychological reality’ of one of the more subtle grammatical principles of Optimality Theory (‘OT’; Prince and Smolensky 1993), Richness of the Base. Within the OT competence theory, we develop several of this principle’s empirical predictions concerning the grammar’s final state (Section 1) and initial state (Se...