miércoles, 27 de enero de 2016

UNIT 28

IDENTIFYING THE FUNCTIONS OF LEARNERS´ LANGAUGE

What I learnt in this unit was the different functions used by learners in the classroom. Some possible language functions are; greeting, asking for clarification, agreeing, speculating, self-correcting and between others.

Within a lesson a student can use many of them depending on his needs, age, level and the learning context. For example, when having a quiz a beginner might have some doubts about the instructions given in the test so he will use the function of asking clarification or expressing doubt. For that he will need to use exponents so those exponents must be taught in advanced so that he could interact correctly with each other and with the teacher. Bearing in mind all those aspects I will implement the use of exponents in my class. I think the most function used for beginners is asking for clarification. I could identify it when doing my internships. Although the function is identified, beginners never use English exponents. That is why for my future teaching I will teach my student basic exponents depending on their necessity. For instance, if they want to confirm answers from an exercise, I will model the exponent “Is that ok?”, “What is the correct one?”.

In short, learners must know the most frequent exponents but not regarding their grammatical form but their meaning.

Take a look to this video to get familiar with the functions of language.



REFERENCE


YouTube,. (2016). Functions of Language. Retrieved 27 January 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUSMFggeww

Finchpark.com,. (2016). Retrieved 27 January 2016, from http://www.finchpark.com/courses/tkt/Unit

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