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The following definition, developed by the National Center for Cultural Competence, provides a foundation for determining linguistic competence in health care, mental health and other human service delivery systems.
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Linguistic competency requires organizational and provider capacity to respond effectively to the health and mental health literacy needs of populations served.
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ICN strongly supports nurses developing linguistic competence by understanding and responding effectively to the linguistic needs brought by the client to the health care encounter.
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Jan 20, 2007 · The paper tries to articulate a concept of linguistic competence which can be converted into language tests. A test was devised on this basis and administered to groups of native and non-native...
• "Cultural and linguistic competence is a set of congruent behaviors, attitudes and policies that come together in a system, agency or among health professionals that enables work in cross-cultural situations. • Culture refers to integrated patterns of human behavior that include the language, thoughts,
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Jun 1, 2017 · This research focuses on increasing linguistic competence which includes grammatical competence, sociolinguistic competence, discourse competence, and strategic competence. ...
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Linguistic competence is a term we associate with Chomsky (e.g. 1965: Ch 1), who made the distinction between people’s knowledge of language (competence), and that knowledge put to use in real situations (performance).1 Competence is an aspect of our mental capacity underlying our use of language.
