CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION THEORIES

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Which of these is one of Halliday’s functions of speech?

A	Instrumental
B	Social
C	Action
D	Personal

Explanation:

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 Function Once children have recognised the boundary between themselves and the environment, then they can start exploring what is around them. Halliday calls this the Heuristic function of language.

Detailed explanation-3: -Michael Halliday (2003:80) stated a set of seven initial functions, as follows: Regulatory, Interactional, Representational, Personal, Imaginative, Instrumental and Heuristic. The Regulatory Function of language is language used to influence the behavior of others.

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.

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