UNIT 27 USING LANGUAGE APPROPRIATELY FOR A RANGE OF CLASSROOM FUNCTION

UNIT 27 USING LANGUAGE APPROPRIATELY FOR A RANGE OF CLASSROOM FUNCTION

Language belongs to human beings because all people used it in order to communicate their ideas and thoughts. But not all people know the way to use the language correctly and some people think that teachers have the responsibility to teach it to their students.  For that reason you need to know three important aspects about language these are the concept, the functions and the use of the language appropriately.   

First, Language can be defined as a basic form of communication that humans use by using verbal, symbols, gestures, or motions. Teachers use language every time in class to getting learning attention or to explain any task. For example, in the classroom when teachers instructing students they used language to explain any activity and if they used the inappropriate language students could not understand the task.

Second, Language functions refer to the purposes in which we use language to communicate. As humans we have the necessity to communicate among as so our language is varied like formal, informal, neutral, and have specific grammatical structures and vocabulary are often used with each language function. For example, in the classroom teacher used language for different functions may be to suggesting or to asking something.

Third, teachers need to know which words are appropriate for using in class in order to communicate with students. But also teachers are in charge to modeling the target language for students. For that reason, if a teacher doesn’t correct himself any mistake or error or bad pronunciation students could learn in a wrong way.      

To sum up, the language you use show what kind of people you are.

Bibliography:

•  Mary Spratt, Alan Pulverness, Melanie Williams (2001) TKT Teaching Knowledge Test course Module 1,2 and 3
• ELD Strategies (2009) What are language function 
• Retrived 
• from: https://www.google.com.ec/search?q=language+functions&biw=1366&bih=667&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiG8bWc8crKAhVFKB4KHacIC4IQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=TKDoNs-yw36pWM%3A