Unit 28: Identifying the Functions of Learners’ Language

     There are some ways of interacting or talking in the language, that is the main reason we as teachers have to notice how language works and it means that we have to use different registers in the language to keep sure students associate the meaning to the language and its use giving them the right input through speaking them and interacting with every single student and organizing the class group to they interact each other. Then, it is important to mention that using register and style shifting is an important part in our class to make students understand how to use the language in a communicative purpose because appropriateness at using a language is essential to convey the correct meaning and avoid misunderstanding. However, there are some areas in the language such as chunk in which students could get confused and there is where we need to use some clarification, but avoiding using L1 because that would cause interference. Finally, we could say that a class should not only be directed, we have to make our students talk and try to elicit their ideas to they start using real language at the right moment.

I attach a link at the end there is useful information related to this unit in which we could check more information of the communicative functions:

http://www.iidc.indiana.edu/?pageId=508