GROUP 5_ANI SUKMA SARI&FATHIMATUZZAHROH

Name : Ani Sukma Sari       (2130730015)

          : Fathimatuzzahroh     (2130730018)

Class : IVA

GROUP : 5

• Language Function

Function are essentially purposes that we accomplish with language, e.g., requesting, responding, greeting, parting, etc. Language is not perfect without forms of language such as morphemes, words, grammar rules, discourse rules, and so forth.

Communication is a series of communicative acts or speech acts, to use John Austin’s(1962) term, which are used systematically to accomplish particular purposes. Furthermore, Austin stressed the importance of consequences, the perlocutionary force, of linguistic communication.

• Halliday’s Seven Functions of Language

1. The instrumental function serves to manipulate the environment to cause certain events to happen.
2. The regulatory function of language is the control of events.
3. The representational function is the use of language to make statements, convey facts and knowledge, explain, or report.
4. The interactional function of language series to ensure social maintenance.
5. The personal function allows a speaker to express feelings, emotions, personality, “gut-level” reactions.
6. The heuristic function involves language used to acquire knowledge to learn about the environment.
7. The imaginative function serves to create imaginary system or ideas.

• Functional Approaches to Language Teaching

Notional-functional syllabuses (“syllabus,” in this case, is a term used mainly in the United Kingdom to refer to what is commonly known as a”curriculum” in the United States).

1. Grammar, which was the primary element in the historically preceding structural syllabus, was relegated to a secondary function.
2. Van Ek and Alexander (1975) exhaustive list of language functions became a basic reference for notional-functional syllabus, now simply referred to as functional syllabus.

• The following functions are covered in the first several lessons of an advanced-beginner’s textbook, New Vistas I (Brown, 1999):

1. Introducing self and other people
2. Exchanging personal information
3. Asking how to spell someone’s name
4. Giving commands
5. Apologizing and thanking
6. Identifying and describing people
7. Asking for information