English teaching

1. Teaching Language
Functions
CMREF
SAFI

2. 1-Introduction
2-what are Language Functions
3- How functions should be taught
4-Types of Language Functions
5-Stages of Teaching Language Functions
6-Some activities for teaching language
functions
7-Developing other Language Skills
8-conclusion
Content

3. 1-Inroduction
Traditional
Approaches
Modern
Approaches
Form Meaning

4. 2-What are language functions
• The purpose of language use.
• The functional use of language is not only
based on certain language structure or
grammatical structures, but
• On how we understand the context and the
use of language.

5. 3- How functions should be taught
• Remember that functional lge does not
appear in isolation
• Intonation is very important in spoken English
when presenting lge functions
• Remember the aspects of appropriacy:
(formal/ informal)
• Refer to the relationship between language
and function

6. 4_ Types of Language Functions
• 1- social functions:
They involve expressing one’s thoughts or feelings: expressing
agreement and disagreement, apologizing, complaining,
asking for information... Etc
• Rhetorical functions:
The language functions used in academic spoken or written
texts: defining, cause and effect, purpose, addition, and
concession.

8. 5-Stages of teaching language functions
Presentation(pre-communicative activity)
Present the language function
Discuss the exponents
Determine the purpose
Identify the participants
Prepare them to use the language function

9. Practice
 Give them the opportunity to practice
 Let them work in pairs

10. memorize, learn the exponents
and realize their meanings.
Mechanical drills
Communicative
drills
Manipulative
drills

11. Production(communicative stage)
o Focuses on using the function in real life
situations.
Richards(2006):
‘’students practice the new structures in
different contexts, often by using their own
content or information to develop fluency’’

12. o Work in pairs or small groups to discuss ideas.
Mini
exchange
Role plays
interviews
Guessing
games
Oral
games

13. Krashen and Terrell (1983)
communication goals can be expressed in
terms of situations, functions and topics.
The teacher should:
plan the situations .
e.g: if the topic being learned is family and relatives then
the situation may be introducing or visiting relatives.
explain that there may be a large number of possible
ways to fulfill each function of language.
e.g: greeting an elderly lady on the street would differ
from greeting a peer in their home.

14. Choosing the appropriate way in which to say
something will partly depend on:
1. your social relationship to the person you
are talking to.
2. how well you know that person.
3. who is listening.
4. the circumstances under which the
communication occurs.

15. 6-Some activities for teaching language functions
(Skehan 1996) indicated that the PPP is not enough
for teaching language functions
According to Doff (2010) there is a way to show
meaning through situation
Information gap activities:
It is an activity in which a learner knows the
information but other does not know.
Discovering missing information, secrets

16. Pair work and group work:

17. Strip Story:
It is a technique of presenting a story part-wise
in a small slips paper called strips
Students discuss interact think and share in pairs
They use different language functions such as
describing negociating meaning
Students also develop problem-solving activity
from this technique.

18. Communitive drill:
It is a type of drill in which the type of response is controlled
but the student provides his/her own content of information.
Example
Teacher: What did you do after breakfast?
Student: ------------------
Say how you greet your teacher in the morning
----------------------

19. Problem solving:
The teacher can provide a problem in groups so
that they should solve it.
Requesting, description, questioning, refusing
etc.

20. Communicative games:
Communicative guames are designed to provoke
communicative activities among the learners.
E.g : Oral games, guessing games, solving puzzeles.
Motivation

21. Oral speech activities:
(telling stories or experiences)

22. 7-Developing Other Language Skills
Teaching
Language
Functions
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing

23. 8-Conclusion
Tell me and I Forget,
Show me and I remember
Involve me and I understand

24. References
• Doff, A. (2010). Teach English. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
• Doff, A., Jones, C., Mitchell, K. (1997). Meanings
into words (teacher’s book). New York:
Cambridge University Press.
• Richards, J.C. (2006). Communicative language
teaching today. New York: Cambridge University
Press.
• Ur, P. (2010). A course in language teaching.
New York: Cambridge University Press.

25. Thank You