GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES
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Regulatory
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Instrumental
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Interactional
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Imaginative
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Detailed explanation-1: -For Halliday, children are motivated to develop language because it serves certain purposes or functions for them. The first four functions help the child to satisfy physical, emotional and social needs. Halliday calls them instrumental, regulatory, interactional, and personal functions.
Detailed explanation-2: -Halliday’s theory of language argues that language doesn’t just mimic meaning, it creates meaning. Imagine a number of families standing together looking at Venus, the evening star. Listen to what they’re saying. One mother with a young child is reciting, ‘Starlight, star bright, first star I’ve seen tonight.
Detailed explanation-3: -Michael Halliday, the founder of systemic functional linguistics, calls these three functions the ideational, interpersonal, and textual. The ideational function is further divided into the experiential and logical.
Detailed explanation-4: -Interactional: Language used to develop social relationships and ease the process of interaction. Concerned with the phatic dimension of talk. Personal: Language used to express the personal preferences and identity of the speaker. Sometimes referred to as the Here I am!