I. INTRODUCTION Vivian Cook, a British applied linguist proposed his multi-competence model in the early 1990s developed from Universal Grammar theories. Multi competence relates to competence in two or more languages, which traditionally are understood as first and second or other languages (L1, L2, OL). In this paper these a priori distinctions are not presumed. Rather connections are drawn among people"s multi-competence in more than one language. Following on, Literacy which reflects considerable elements of language use, ELF (English as a lingua franca) and also relevant categorizations of Learning are deduced and drawn. The purpose is to establish coherent ground for a model for language education that is appropriate for meeting local modern and cultural needs. II. MULTI-COMPETENCE The Multi-Competence model has evolved since its early inspiration from Universal Grammar: The term 'multi-competence' was originally defined as 'the compound state of a mind with two grammars'; in the context of that paper, "grammar" was used in the Chomskyan sense of the total knowledge of language in the mind (the I-language) leading some people to infer wrongly that multi-competence