0 the ability to do something well:
Her competence as a teacher is unquestionable.
He reached a reasonable level of competence in his English.
1 the ability to do something well:
3 the power of a person, business, court, or government to deal with something or take legal decisions:
Research into semantic skills focuses less on the qualitative aspects of linguistic competence than does research into phonological and morphosyntactic skills.
Two determinants had a unique contribution to the prediction of symbolic competence: maternal depression and parent sensitivity.
What kinds of opportunities are there for developing symbolic competence?
Indeed, symbolic competence is the ability to perform and construct various historicities in dialogue with others.
Forthcoming procedures for the analysis of electroacoustic music should derive from the synthesis of top-down and bottom-up views derived from different competences.
Parent styles associated with children's self-regulation and competence in school.
Early training programs in cultural competence tended to rely on categorical constructs that lumped patients together by their "typical" cultural values, customs, and beliefs.
But they certainly show that grammatical competence does not parallel linguistic performance and that processing tasks impede performance.
