CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In his early work, known as “scale and category linguistics, ” Halliday devised four categories (unit, structure, class, and system) and three scales (rank, exponence, and delicacy) to describe language.

Detailed explanation-3: -These he called the ‘pragmatic’ group: they are the earliest, and their purpose is practical, getting things achieved, using language as a tool for control of self and others, managing the (social) world.

Detailed explanation-4: -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. An early use of this function is to use it to ask for the name of something.