Work should start from the pupils' own linguistic competence.

This represents a very great pool of linguistic competence.

Only if this latter requirement is met can we begin to talk of linguistic competence.

This relies on the person's own evaluation of his/her linguistic competence and can prove misleading.

It is by doing experiments, to find out what are the mechanisms that underlie linguistic competence.

In addition to building linguistic competence, Parker's language programs promote cultural literacy.

This suggests, once again, that comprehension experiments may have been looking in the wrong place for evidence of young children's linguistic competence.

She was completely without language, and after seven years of rehabilitation still lacked linguistic competence.

Despite extensive research, how humans achieve their linguistic competence has still to be fully explained.

It is basically responsible for differentiating the linguistic competence of acting.