CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Personal function-language that expresses personal opinions, attitudes, and feelings including a speaker’s identity. Representational/Informative function-language that is used to relay or request information. Heuristic function-language that is used to explore, learn and discover.

Detailed explanation-2: -Heuristic and Representational Functions Representational functions of language are used to request or relay information. These statements are straightforward. They do not seek for an explanation. For instance, “my cat is asleep” or “the kitchen light isn’t working.”

Detailed explanation-3: -MAK Halliday proposed that children build up a language to serve functional, social purposes, gradually moving from making whole-body messages to get their needs fulfilled, towards using the organs of speech and the forms of meaning-making they find around them to closer and closer approximate the adult system.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics understands texts as pieces of communication constructed for social purposes. When we listen to, read or view a text, and when we speak, write or create a text, we are drawing on three systems of culturally constructed meaning from which we simultaneously make our choices.