UNIT 28 IDENTIFYING THE FUNCTIONS OF LEARNERS' LANGUAGE

The functions of learners' language are the PURPOSES for which learners use the language in the classroom.

     In this part , I think that all the exponents need to  be taught correctly because every day the students need or apply functions of language. Teaching students their favorites phrases could be a good idea but then they need to think in more complex language according their level of knowlegde .
Also, for every stage of a lesson there are possible learner language functions but the most important part is that students first they can identify and analyze these three aspects: situation, exponent and the function.Only in this way students are able to catch and expand the functions of language. As a result students will use of a wide range of the language for example: interacting, suggesting, negotiating, etc.
The functions learners use are often the same as those used by teachers. In other words, for each activity or stage of a lesson plan the students will use exponents in order to express different functions of language but according to the necessity.

for more information, click on these links
http://www.ode.state.or.us/teachlearn/standards/elp/files/langfunc.pdf
http://www.literacyhow.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Academic-Language-Functions-toolkit.pdf