Linguistic Competence on Employability, Mobility and Visibility

Abstract

Linguistic competence is very necessary for employability, mobility and visibility. No linguistically competent person can be unemployable, immobile and invisible. In other words, a lot of people are not employable, mobile and visible because they are not linguistically competent. Every potential worker who aspires to move and gain visibility is expected to be phonologically, grammatically, syntactically, semantically and morphologically proficient. This study investigates the potential effects of linguistic competence in employability, mobility and visibility. This study adopts a qualitative-descriptive design; data were collected from interviews with lecturers in Mountain Top University, Ogun State, Nigeria. Edward Thorndike’s Connectionism (1898) and Dell Hymes (1972)’s Communicative Competence are the theoretical frameworks for this study. The study reveals that good voice texture as one of the non-linguistic competences that can accelerate employability, mobility and visibility.