The Competence-Performance Model for Educational Therapists

Abstract

The Competence-Performance model, developed by Noam Chomsky (b.1928-present), a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), distinguishes between linguistic competence (the underlying knowledge of language) and linguistic performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations). However, when the Competence-Performance model is applied to the field of educational therapy, it is referring to a different context.