Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Functions

Here are some functions objectives for Stage 2 for speaking:

To use language to express yourself

• To use language to accomplish straightforward social functions
• To use language to find out more about the language and culture

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

• Review

  Review insights gained through listening and reading and try to incorporate them into your speech.

• Analysis

  Analyze the scripts of social situations of everyday life and how people use language to accomplish their purposes. Try to determine what the real communicative purpose is behind what people say.

• Practice

  Use role-play techniques to practice communicative purposes in different social situations.

• Ask for correction

  Convince a language associate or other friends in the society that you really want to be corrected if you act inappropriately in a social situation. Ask them to let you know if what you say communicates something other than what they think you intended.

Here are some functions techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

The Dialogue techniques

• The Script Analysis technique
• The Participant Observation technique

Here are some functions activities for Stage 2 guidelines for speaking:

The Social Visiting activity

• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Join in the Work activity
• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Telephone Procedures activity

• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 2: Speaking 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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