To enable student to communicate in the target language
Linguistic forms
Meanings
Functions
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Choose appropriate form, given the social context.
Manage the process of negotiating meaning with their interlocutors
Q2. What is the role of the teacher? And students?
Facilitator
Adviser
Co-communicator
Communicator
Responsible manager of their own learning
Communicator
Re
Language development in children is related
to brain development
During the first 3 years of life, the human brain develops to 90% of its full adult growth
Neurolinguistics : The study of biological and neural foundations of language
Brain development sets up the order of language development in children
The critical period hypothesis
→ Ability to learn a native language
: A linguistic system used when speakers of different
languages come into contact through trade or
colonization
Creole
: A language that develops from a pidgin
When the pidgin evolves into a more complex system
and becomes the native language of a later generation,
it has become a Creole.
language classroom because it provides input for the learner.(Rost 1994:141-142)
▣ The reasons why listening is important to the development of speaking skill
- Spoken language gives a means of interaction for the learner.
- Authentic spoken language provides a challenge for the learner to try to understand language as native speakers actually use it.
Language is an essential driver of enterprise growth.
Machine translation eliminates the main constraints of human translation: cost and capacity.
Machine translation can be used by human translation service providers as a way to boost productivity.
Given enough data, machine translation programs often work well enough for a native speaker of one language to get the approximate me