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Unit 1. 4. LANGUAGE AS COMMUNICATION
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- 1LANGUAGE DEFINITION SAPIR, 1921Language is a purely human and non-instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions, and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.
- 2LANGUAGE DEFINITION TRAGER, 1949A language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols by means of which the members of a society interact in terms of their total culture.
- 3LANGUAGE PROPERTIES LANGUAGE CHARACTERISTICS
- 4Characteristics of language COMMUNICATIVE VS. INFORMATIVECommunicative signals communicate something intentionally.
Informative signals communicate verbally and nonverbally. - 5Characteristics of language DISPLACEMENTWe can refer to things and events that are not present.
- 6Characteristics of language ARBITRARINESSAbsence of natural connection between a word sound or form and its meaning.
- 7Characteristics of language PRODUCTIVITYThe potential number of utterances in any human language is infinite. The manipulation of linguistic resources to create new words and expressions.
- 8Characteristics of language CULTURAL TRANSMISSIONLanguage is passed from one generation to the next. Albeit science has proved that human beings are born with an innate predisposition to acquire a language.
- 9Characteristics of language DISCRETENESSHuman languages combine a set of different sounds to form distinctive units that have different meanings.
- 10Characteristics of language VOCAL-AUDITORY CHANNELHuman linguistic communication is usually vocally transmitted and auditory received. Involving speaker and listener. However, it could also be generated via writing or sign language of the deaf.
- 11Characteristics of language RECIPROCITYIn usual linguistic exchanges, the sender/speaker is also the receiver/listener.
Aparici --> EMIREC-EMIREC communication model. Both active senders and receivers at once.
- 12Characteristics of language RAPID FADING - TRANSITORINESSCharacteristics of language Language signal does not persist over time in spoken exchange. They are produced and disappear quickly, given that language is an energy that is constantly being created.
- 13TFLT vs. Communicative ApproachTraditionally second language teaching has consisted of teaching items of language in isolation with a focus on grammatical concepts and using written texts as main source of input.
Communicative Approach >> reaction to grammar based methodologies. - 14Communicative approachDeveloped by Dell Hymes (late 60s), it envisages language learning as the acquisition of communicative abilities based on interaction and the communicative functions arisen from real-life situations << COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE
- 15Communicative competenceRD 126/2014, Feb 28th
1 of main objective of PE - f) Acquire in at least 1FL the basic CC that
allows them to express and understand simple messages and to function in everyday situations. - 16CC for HymesContrary to Chomsky (master semantics, syntax, and phonology)
Dell Hymes: Communicative competence - knowledge that speakers and listeners have in order to communicate appropriately in different social contexts.
4 aspects: Systematic potential, appropriacy, occurrence, feasibility. - 17CC for Canale and SwainCC is the learner's ability to use language to communicate successfully.
Constituted by: 1) grammatical competence, 2) Sociolinguistic competence, 3) Strategic competence. - 18Grammatical competence (Canale and Swain)Refers to the accurate knowledge of lexicon, syntax, and phonology.
- 19Sociolinguistic competence (Canale and Swain)Ability to adapt language to different contexts according to accepted usage of a particular linguistic community.
- 20Strategic competence (Canale and Swain)Involves verbal and nonverbal strategies to adequate language and C∅ to context organizing language in a coherent and cohesive way.
- 21Discourse competence (Canale and Swain)It is the capacity to organize discourse with coherence and cohesion in different communicative situations.
- 22Sociocultural competence (Canale and Swain)It encompasses the knowledge of the social and cultural context in order to use the language following social and cultural rules.
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