Meaning of competence in English

Research into semantic skills focuses less on the qualitative aspects of linguistic competence than does research into phonological and morphosyntactic skills.

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Two determinants had a unique contribution to the prediction of symbolic competence: maternal depression and parent sensitivity.

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What kinds of opportunities are there for developing symbolic competence?

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Indeed, symbolic competence is the ability to perform and construct various historicities in dialogue with others.

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Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences.

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Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.

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But they certainly show that grammatical competence does not parallel linguistic performance and that processing tasks impede performance.

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In order for cooperation to be rational, participants must have a certain degree of confidence in each other's competence to complete their assigned tasks.

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In this study it is unclear whether marital violence, family upheaval, or homelessness accounts for the observed deficits in children's social competence.

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The reasons for such reduced developmental competence are unclear.

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Many reports point out that the food varied between farms depending on wealth, thrift and the housewife's competence.

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These findings were corroborated by a number of laboratory-based measures of grammatical competence including estimated mean length of utterances, verbal comprehension, and repetition of sentences.

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The goal of the task is to assess a person's language competence, language expression (production/performance), and proficiency.

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But, in fact, his input and output deficits match one another very precisely, suggesting a deficit in underlying competence.

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Thus, the difficulties are located at the representation or competence level.

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academic competence

Thus, academic competence may moderate the effects of changes in social skills on antisocial behavior.

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clinical competence

The assessment of a student during the clinical practica focuses heavily on demonstration of clinical competence, resulting in certification through a competency-based national examination.

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cognitive competence

These are some of the special conditions that stretch our ability to understand how languages and environments interact in developing children's linguistic and cognitive competence.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

能力, 才能, 水準…

Meaning of competence in English

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