To achieve communicative competence, learners need to be competent in four aspects: linguistic, sociolinguistic, discourse, and strategic competencies. Here, ‘linguistic competence’ concerns students’ use of syntax, lexis, and structures as Communicative competence is a term coined by Dell Hymes in 1966 in reaction to Noam Chomsky’s (1965) notion of “linguistic competence”.

• Communicative competence is the intuitive functional knowledge and the principles of language usage.
• This approach reflects that a language user needs to use the language not only correctly, but also appropriately.
• Here, ‘linguistic competence’ concerns students' Use of syntax, lexis, and structures’ as Linguistic competence is the knowledge of the language code, i.e., its grammar and vocabulary, and also of the conventions of its written representation.
• The rules govern the combination of words and phrases to structure sentences (i.e., syntax), and the way that meaning is conveyed through language (i.e., semantics).
• Sociolinguistic competence is the knowledge of sociocultural rules of use, i.e., knowing how to use and respond to language appropriately reflecting the expression of the meaning of what they communicate.
• Discourse competence deals with organizing words, phrases, and sentences in order to create conversations, speeches, poetry, email messages, newspaper articles, etc
• it is the ability to organize the content during communication and use of vocabulary. For instance, the speaker may not know a certain word, thus will plan to either paraphrase or ask what that word is in the target language.
• Strategic competence is the ability to use formats and stylistic devices. Thus, the speaker knows how to keep the communication channel open.
• Hence, we can conclude that linguistic competence concern with students' use of syntax, lexis, and structures.