CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Functionalism is an approach to language development that focuses on the relationship between language form and social meaning. (Emmit et al. 2015) That is, language is not so much a system of rules as posed by Chomsky, but a means of performing particular socially communicative functions.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Language Development Approach seeks to give students opportunities to develop core content area knowledge, analytical practices, and discipline‐specific academic uses of language in an environment that uses grade‐level standards, is relevant, challenging, engages, empowers, and inspires learning every day.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is a functional approach to language? A functional approach looks at how language enables us to do things: to share information, to enquire, to express attitudes, to entertain, to argue, to get our needs met, to reflect, to construct ideas, to order our experiences and make sense of the world.

Detailed explanation-4: -The functional group communication theory is a unified and coherent set of propositions, assumptions, and claims that attempt to explain how and why communication is related to the quality of the decisions groups make.

Detailed explanation-5: -A functional approach affirms the importance of talk in a school culture which has been inclined to devalue spoken texts and overvalue written ones. Consequently, teachers will need to demonstrate the differences between spoken and written texts.