Language development - Halliday's 7 Stages
Quick and basic mindmap that presents all 7 functions with some examples
- Created by: Berbtato
- Created on: 03-03-17 10:22
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- Pragmatic Development - Halliday's 7 stages
- Stage 1: Instrumental Stage
- Child uses language to express needs
- For example 'Want food'
- Concrete nouns use primarily
- Child uses language to express needs
- Stage 3: Interactional Stage
- Language used to communicate and form relationships
- Realizes language can go beyond the need
- For example 'Love you, daddy'
- Stage 2: Regulatory Stage
- Language used to tell others commands
- Realises language is a useful tool for getting what they want
- For example 'Go away' or 'make food'
- Stage 4: Personal Stage
- Language used to express feelings and opinions
- For example 'Me happy'
- Language is more than demanding and receiving praise
- Language used to express feelings and opinions
- Stage 5: Heuristic Stage
- When language is used to gain information about the world
- Questioning of everything, always wanting an answer
- For example 'Where he go' or 'why it have that'
- Stage 6: Imaginative Stage
- Language used to tell stories or create imaginary situations
- Imaginary friends often fall into this stage
- Child able to recognize an object can have many names
- Language used to tell stories or create imaginary situations
- Stage 7: Informative Stage
- Child begins to use language to talk about new concepts
- Learn to represent themselves using language
- Stage 1: Instrumental Stage
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