Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Functions

Here are some functions objectives for Stage 3 learners for speaking:

• To use language to express yourself

• To use language for all common communication functions, including

  • supporting opinions
  • hypothesizing
  • persuading, and
  • interpreting

• To develop the ability to use language indirectly as when

  • hedging
  • avoiding commitments
  • rejecting advances, and Learning to interact appropriately in everyday encounters
  • giving criticism or rebuke
• To use language to find out more about the language and culture

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

• Review

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

• Analysis

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

• Practice

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

• Asking for correction

  Convince a language associate (LA) or other friends in the society that you really want to be corrected if you act inappropriately in a social situation, specifically if what you say communicates something other than what they think you intended.

Here are some functions techniques for Stage 3 guidelines for speaking:

The Dialogue techniques

• The Conversation Analysis technique
• The Role-Play technique
• The Participant Observation technique

Here are some functions activities for Stage 3 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
• Practice debating and persuading.

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

• Generic module: Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 3: 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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