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As Hymes theory establishes, I believe that Communicative language teaching will only be successful if we are able to distinguish between two kinds of competence: linguistic competence(grammatical knowledge)and communicative competence(producing and understanding sentences that are appropriate and acceptable to a particular situation).  Communicative abilities have to be developed at the same time as the linguistic skills.  If language grammar is taught in an isolated manner, communication will not be effective.