CONCLUSIONS

How can the knowledge of language functions affect your teaching now or in the future?

Teachers also need to be fluent in social and academic English so that they can serve as role models for students. Also, research has shown that acquiring English as a second or additional language takes a long time, with students requiring several years to study the language functions English speaker typically study language from a structural perspective. These structures include words, sounds, morphemes, phonemes, sentences parts of speech, sentences order, sentences structure and vocabulary. The primary assumption is that a speaker learns these structures in the process of acquiring language.

Displacement and semanticity are two types of expanded language functions that take the basic semantic relationship of an agent, action, and object and move the meaning. This is very important when teach English in the school or when do the adults and other children in the child´s life predominately need to observe what he is doing and make a guess at what he may or may not want? This means the communication partner does all the work and has to learn to “read” the situation.

There are any important questions when think in the language functions What are the outside issues facing this student?  What factors are affecting this student’s acquisition of English?  What additional information would you like to know about this student? With whom would you collaborate to gather more information about this student?  What would you do in your role as teacher or administrator to support this student?  What additional help do you need?  What do you need to learn so that you can help this student?  What do you already know that can help this student?