Teaching Functional Language
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Reflective Questions:
1. How do you decide which functional language to teach your students?
2. What is intonation and how can it affect the message we are trying to get across?
3. What possible issues could learners face when presented with functional language?
4. Why is it important to teach functional language to our students?1.The language and the linguistic patterns they need for their day to day communication and interaction to facilitate understanding with other people in a given context, to make friends, to solve daily situations and to ask and make requests
2.Intonation is like the music we accompany our discourse. It is an essential part in our oral exchanges to convey the correct message and to make ourselves understood by others. Intonation helps to set the context
3.Using the wrong intonation, omitting essential linguistic elements to make themselves be understood, using literal translation and linguistic patterns from their own language to convey a message
4.It it important to help students to make friends, to know how to get about daily life situations, to go shopping, to order a meal ata restaurant, ask for information , ask and give orders……1. I should take the needs of my students into consideration when deciding on which functional language to include in my syllabus.Likewise, the order of the functions to be taught depends on the students’ needs and expectations in learning the language. We call this needs analysis.
2. Intonation will help the teacher to highlight /stress the word that she/he wants learners to focus on. For example, COULD or WOULD can be highlighted when practicing polite questions.
3. They might use wrong intonation. Some linguistic elements might be missing.
4. Functional language will help our students to become autonomous. With the help of functional language student will become compotent in communicating. They will be able to communicate in the target languge for a genuine reason. Students will learn to use appropriate language for various situtations. They will be able to produce the language for daily life.
Language is not just a system of rules, rather it has some authentic functions and is used for communicative purposes. Functional syllabus helps teachers teach the language in a more meaningful way as it is used in real world.
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