Read the following text and fill in the blanks with suitable words from the box. There are more words than needed. Make any grammatical change if necessary :

developed	spontaneous	acquisition	mother	used	aware
ability	fact	natural	acquire	communication	learning

Communicative competence refers to the (a) _______ to use language appropriately in various circumstances. There are two ways of (b)_______ communicative competence in a language. The first is (c) ________ which is similar to the way people develop ability in their (d) _______ tongue. They are only aware of the (e) ________ that they are (f) ________ the language for (g) _______ It is a (h) _______ subconscious process in which users not (i) __________ of acquiring a language. In non-technical terms, acquisition is picking up a language (j) __________ .