A communicative competence is a result of language learning that needs mastery of vocabulary. Vocabulary is the very important component in
language learning. Wilkins 1972 p.111 states that without grammar very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.
2. Language Teaching
When someone wants to know about language teaching, someone should know what teaching is. According to Kimble and Garmezy 1963: 133 in
Brown 1994: 7, teaching is showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving instructions, guiding in the study of something, providing
with knowledge, causing to know or understand. Penny Ur 1998: 4 states that teaching is intended to result in personal learning for students, and is
worthless if it does not do so. On the other hand, she says that the concept of teaching is understood as a process that is intrinsically related with learning
and they are insaparable. Wiserman, Cooner, and Knight 1999 describe teaching as the process
of continuous development. At each stage, reflection on the improvement of the delivery of instruction is critical. They suggest that teacher should be
concerned with improving delivery and methodology. Then, the students should be both formally and informally evaluated throughout the lesson.
According to Olivia and Pawless 2001 probing and monitoring seat-work are methods to informally evaluate. They explain that formal evaluations tend to
occur at the end of a chapter or unit-tests, quizzes.
From the definitions above, it can be concluded that teaching is the process of continuous development to show or to help someone to learn how
to do something, to give instruction, to guide in the study something and to provide with knowledge and teaching is causing to know or understand.
Language teaching as explained by Brown 2000: p.14 is teaching which is stressed on the importance of self-esteem, of students cooperatively
learning together, of developing individual strategies for success, and above all focusing on the communicative process in language learning. According to
Stern 1996: p.21 language teaching is the activities which are intended to bring about language learning. According to Maya K David, the goal of
language teaching is to enable the learner to communicate with both native and non-native speakers in English www. david399.htmcommunicative-
competence. From the explanations above, it can be summarized that language
teaching is activities to help someone to learn how to do something, to give instruction, to guide in the study and to provide with knowledge which causes
to know or understand and the focus is on the communicative process in language learning.
3. Communicative Competence
