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1 Separate from actual performance- what he or she does while producing or comprehending language. In other words, competence is put to use through performance.
2 In actual driving, however, the driver has to relate the Code to a continuous flow of changing circumstances, and may even break it from time to time.
3 An analogy can be made to the Highway Code for driving. Drivers know the Code and have indeed been tested on it to obtain a driving license.
4 Knowing the Highway Code is not the same as driving.
5 In language learning, there is a distinction between competence and performance. Competence is a state of the speakers mind. What does he or she know?

1 The data to be reported here come from a longitudinal study of the untutored acquisition of English as a second language by a five-year-old Japanese girl whom we shall call Uguisu, nightingale in Japanese.
2 Her family came to the United States for a period of two years while her father was a visiting scholar at Harvard, and they took residence in North Cambridge, a working-class neighbourhood.
3 The children in that neighbourhood were her primary source of language input.
4 Uguisu also attended public kindergarten for two hours every day, and later elementary school, but with no tutoring in English syntax.

1 For market-makers offering two-way quotes in the international markets, open positions are far more common.
2 Exchange control does not altogether prohibit Indian banks from keeping open positions during the course of a day. Thus, depending on the policy of a bank, dealers may be allowed to take intra-day positions in order to make a profit.
3 Indeed, unless they are willing to take open positions, they will cease to be market-makers. Large overbought or oversold positions are often deliberately built up in the hope of profiting from price movements.
4 For instance, a dealer expecting the dollar to weaken during the day might deliberately create, through customer transactions and transactions in the inter-bank market, an oversold position in the hope of squaring it later during a day at a profit, should his expectation about the dollar weakening materialize.

1 The intention was to record as much music as possible as quickly as possible before encroaching influences like radio and cinema began transforming the region’s distinctive culture.
2 But the Brazilian mission’s collection ended up languishing in vaults here.
3 Early in 1938, Mario de Andrade, the municipal secretary of the culture here, dispatched a four-member Folklore Research Mission to the northeastern hinterlands of Brazil on a similar mission.
4 They recorded whoever and whatever seemed to be interesting: piano carriers, cowboys, beggars, voodoo priests, quarry workers, fishermen, dance troupes, and even children at play.

1 During the school year, we had the benefit of being both unaccountable and omnipotent.
2 So in approaching this impending summer period, what lingered in the back of our minds was a collectively felt, unspeakable thought: Were we really up to the challenge?
3 Insulated from the consequences of such decisions, and privy to all critical information about the case, we were able to solve complex business problems with relative ease.
4 The information would be more nebulous and the outcomes of our decisions would be unpredictable.
5 We knew that once we began our internships, this would no longer be the case.
6 We could engage in impassioned debates about how as chief executive of a certain company we would have done this, or if we had been the banker on that deal we would have structured it like that.

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