English Language CLD

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Hallidays functions: 

  • Instrumental- language used to satisfy material needs, like food.
  • Regulatory- langauge used to control others.
  • Interactional- phatic talk, language used to form relationships.
  • Personal- used to express strong emotions.
  • Heuristic- language seeking information.
  • Imaginative- language of creative writing and games.
  • Representational- language that communicates ideas and information.

Innatist theories:

These theorists believe that there is a genetic element innate in the human brain that prepares infants for language. 

  • Chomsky named this process L.A.D - language aquisition device.

He said that children cannot simply learn through imitation alone because:

  • Children create thier own language and the language that children hear is sometimes improvised as adults dont always speak in…

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