Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Functions

Here are some functions objectives for Stage 2 for listening:

To use language to express themselves

• To use language to accomplish straightforward social functions
• To use language to ask questions and report information

Here are some functions strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Advance organization

  Use a functions checklist for ideas about the kinds of communicative purposes people use language to express

• Analysis

  Analyze the scripts of social situations of everyday life and how people use language to accomplish their purposes. Try to determine what the real communicative purpose is behind what people say.

• Practice

  Include practice activities in which you listen to people who perform communicative functions.

• Selective attention

  Watch for ways people express specific functions.

Here are some functions techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

The Dialogue techniques

• The Script Analysis technique
• The Participant Observation technique

Here are some functions activities for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

The Social Visiting activity

• The Shopping Trip activity
• The Join in the Work activity
• The Eating Out activity
• The Public Transport activity
• The Telephone Procedures activity

• Sociocultural themes: Daily life
• Sociocultural themes: Social relations

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Functions
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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