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Trabajo de Grado (Profesional en Lenguas Modernas) Facultad de Humanidades Universidad ECCI 2017

The competence, in any field that is seen, refers to the objective to win in any sport or giving the best possible for any activity that is made, also it is shown as a faculty with different awareness, skills, thoughts, character and values of a comprehensive way on the different interactions that human being has for their lives on a personal, social and labour scope. Additionally, the competences for learning can be seen as the knowledge abilities and skills that a person develops in order to understand, transform and practice in the world they live in. This scope in learning is very important to obtain improvements on the social and personal development. These, from general point of view. On the languages scope, there is a variety of competences that must be taken into account when it comes to communicate correctly and appropriate. Some of the most valuable competences, are the Communicational and cultural competence, which will be addressed in this thesis. According to (Hymes, 1974), the communicational competence, is the most general term for the communicative ability of a person, and this ability covers as much as the knowledge of a language and the use of it. One way to acquire this competence, is through the social experience, a real and direct contact with other cultures, and definitely as Hymes mentioned, the knowledge of the language that is obtained from a learning process and practice. The second competence that this thesis is focused on , is the cultural competence.