Introduction

Unit 2 Task 4 – Digging into English functions issues

BY:

ADRIANA E. SALGADO RIVERA cc 52119647

JUAN CARLOS TOVAR C.C 1124218376

GLORIA GISELLA ACOSTA
OSCAR QUINTERO

LANGUAGE FORMS AND FUNTIONS

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TUTOR

LILIANA ISABEL CERVERA

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL ABIERTA Y ADISTANCIA UNAD

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREING LANGUAGE

APRIL – 2017

Introduction

Linguistic is very important because is the science that studies how language work and traying to formulate description of particular language and general laws about how language in general work and about how different they ca be and how alike must be.

I think that is completely necessary to study linguistic because concerned with the nature of language and communication, and when I teach English in the future were important includes phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. However, any people the study of linguistic with feeling of great awe, perhaps because they feel that terminology is difficult especially the terminology.

Language function solve problems, invent new tools, create living spaces in typically adverse locations.

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.

Of the many cues that influence behavior, at any point in time, none is more common than the actions of others." (Bandura, 1986, p. 206) Many theories have been proposed over the years to explain the developmental changes that people undergo over the course of their lives. These theories differ in the conceptions of human nature they adopt, and in what they regard to be the basic causes and mechanisms of human motivation and behavior. Since development is a lifelong process (Baltes &Reese, 1984), the analysis is concerned with changes in the psychosocial functioning of adults as well as to those occurring in childhood. In the midst of psychological theories, Socio-cognitive theory has gone through a long way to prove its essence in psychology.