Passive Competence

Passive Competence tests a person’s comprehension of a language as opposed to their active use of it. In environments with several languages as means of communication, speakers often have profound active knowledge of one language (i.e. they can freely speak and understand it), while being able only to comprehend the other language(s). The Passive Competence test examines the speaker’s level of comprehension of the other language using statistical probability models.