As teachers we should be aware of the different competences are been established during decades. In order to understand which one will serve better to our students needs. We need to know what types of competence are and how they are related to each other. The Discourse Competence is a sequencing of linguistic items that goes from words, structures, sentences, utterances. It goes from parts to a hole in order to achieve mastery of the language either spoken or written. The components of Discourse Competence include; Cohesion, Deixis, Coherence, Genre/Generic Structure, Conversational structure, the Discourse competence refers to the ability to participate effectively in conversations. For example when having a conversation, how to interrupt. Ii is how to organize your ideas into sentences putting them together to create speeches, email messages, news paper articles. Is a higher level, is when you master the language; now you know how to have a conversation, now you may understand each other. You also have the ability to comprehend any written article. We as teacher must get our students to this level. It is sad to know that when some of our students are in high school they do not speak in a full conversation or understand any written passage.
