LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

1. A language function refers to what students do with language as they engage with content and interact with others.

   • Learner really acquires a hierarchy of semantic features from the sensory system to create patterns that form systems of concepts or language functions.

2. Agency is another basic function of early languagesition. acqui

   • The child is central to the action , so the child is an agent.
   • How the child acts as an agent are social in nature because the acts are in relationship to others.
   • The child´s actions are in relationship to the child.

3. The extended semantic relationship allow the child to use languare to "refer".

   • The act of "referring" is a Language Function.

4. Social intention is a language function. Social intentions refer to the child’s purpose for communicating with someone else.

5. Language functions are the socio-cognitive processes of the human’s Neuro-Semantic Language Learning System.

   • The socio (social) piece is the way that a person uses language to communicate with and to other people.
   • The cognitive piece is the way a person thinks.

6. Semantic relationships function is one of the earliest types of language function

   • These semantic relationships function to assist the child’s development socially and cognitively.

7. Expanded language functions move a child’s communication from the here-and-now to ideas that span time and place.