Andrea M. Ducas, MPH, is a program officer with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working with programs related to payment and delivery system reform, purchaser and consumer engagement, health care price transparency, community-driven health improvements, and strengthening health departments.
fluent adjective. âº (of a âperson) âable to âspeak a âlanguage âeasily and well, or (of a âlanguage) âspoken âeasily and without many âpauses: She was fluent in âFrench by the âtime she was five. He âspeaks fluent Chinese. fluency noun [U] us /ËfluÂ·ÉnÂ·si/ âº This âjob ârequires fluency in two or more âAfrican âlanguages.
Linguistic competence is the system of linguistic knowledge possessed by native speakers of a language.It is in contrast to the concept of linguistic performance, the way the language system is used in communication.ccording to Chomsky, competence is the 'ideal' language system that makes it possible for speakers to produce and understand an infinite number of sentences in their language, and to distinguish grammatical sentences from ungrammatical sentences.