Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Functions

Here is a functions objective for Stage 1 for listening:

• To interpret basic survival functions, such as:

  • Greetings
  • Leave-taking expressions
  • Directions
  • Names and prices of items
  • Numbers

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Identify the most common and widely-accepted ways to perform basic survival functions. Keep a list of functions and the ways to express them in the language.

• Practice

  Use interactive techniques that require you to understand the communicative intent of the speaker and respond in some way that shows you understand.

• Observation

  Pay attention when you are in the community to the ways people perform basic communication functions.

Here are some functions techniques for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

• The Survival Phrases technique
• The Reverse Role-Play technique
• The Dialogue Strip technique
• The Participant Observation technique
• The Simulations technique

Here are some functions activities for Stage 1 guidelines for listening:

The Eating Out activity

• The Public Transport activity
• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Social Visiting activity

• Generic module: Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 1: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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