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There are seven variety of language functions

The 7 Functions;

Instrumental

Regulatory

Interactional

Personal

Heuristic

Imaginative

Informative

Reading aloud to children is a valuable tool for showing children how to improve their speaking and listening, as well as build their receptive skills and helps them learn

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- Language occurs in phases
- Families are important for assisting children

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-Langua

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Language practices, importance of home, educational and family setting, Halliday 7 speech functions, Language cueing systems

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There are seven various language functions.

- The Seven Functions

- Instrumental
- Regulatory
- Interactional
- Personal
- Heuristic
- Imaginative
- Informative

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teaching literacy through oral language such as reading

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Teaching literacy through talking and reading aloud to students in the classroom and at home

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Reading in the classroom is a valuable tool for showing children how to use their voice, builds their receptive skills and is an example of 'learning through language'.

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Language cueing systems (for reading and writing)

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Language cueing systems (for reading and writing)

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1. Graphophonic: sounds of the language & symbols.Terminology (phoneme; phonemic awareness; phonetics and phonics)

2. Semantic: The meaning of words and the focus of the meaning of the language in sentences.

3. Syntactic: The structure or grammar of the language. This involves the study of syntax or the systematic way words and sentences are organised and relate to each other.

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- Dialogic and evolving
- Culturally and socially situated
- Reflect power and politics

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Using different tones in your voice helps the children understand what the book is about and setting the tone of that environment.

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Children learn that you have different sets of appropriate voices for different places. For example, using their 'classroom voice'. If you don't model them, and use these different voices, they can never learn. Oral language is vital and reading out loud is one of these very powerful tools that students utilise in learning to read and write.

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- having a conversation
- sharing text

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Language development occurs in phases where the milestones are are not fixed or fully age related

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Sounds / Sound Relationships / Building of Words

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Sounds / Sound Relationships / Building of Words

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Oral language:                    reading to your child to develop the language and rhythms in our speech

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Oral language:                    reading to your child to develop the language and rhythms in our speech

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Language is multi faced and complex

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Evolving - children constantly refine their language

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The importance of home for oral language 

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The importance of home for oral language 

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Parents and teachers need to promote oral/spoken language with young children.

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Conversations

Stories

Print

rules

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Language is used differently in different contexts

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Instrumental
Regulatory
Interactional
Personal
Heuristic
Imaginative
Informative

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The 7 speech functions
Language practices
Different terminologies (ESL, LBOTE etc.)

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When your students read. . . You read

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Children constantly refine their language

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Language Development is a process

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Constantly evolving, Halliday's language model, children love experimenting with language

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7 Functions of Language

1.       Instrumental – “I want”

2.       Regulatory – “Do as I tell you”

3.       Interactional – “Me and You”

4.       Personal – “Here I come”

5.       Heuristic – “Tell me why”

6.       Imaginative – “Let’s Pretend”

7.       Informative – “I have something to tell you”

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- ESL, LBOTE, EAL/D

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It is important to read aloud to the students 

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It is important to read aloud to the students 

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Michael Halliday -seven speech functions 	                                1. Instrumental - satisfying person needs	        2. Regulatory 	                       3. Interactional 	                       4. Personal - language for talking about self	                        5. Heurestic -learning new things and testing knowledge 	6. Imaginative - creating new worlds and making stories up	7. Informative- -  sharing information

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Michael Halliday -seven speech functions 	                                1. Instrumental - satisfying person needs	        2. Regulatory 	                       3. Interactional 	                       4. Personal - language for talking about self	                        5. Heurestic -learning new things and testing knowledge 	6. Imaginative - creating new worlds and making stories up	7. Informative- -  sharing information

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Oral Language
How the language is learn?
- conversations
- sharing texts

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Learning Language
Learning about Language
Learning through Language

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Language is dialogic as it a negotiated from speaker to speaker

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- Dialects
- Language Practices
- Register
-  Michael Halliday 7 Speech Functions
- Terms (ESL, LBOTE, EAL/D)