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Language
Language
Vehicle for ideas,
feelings, experiences
Social realities
Nature of the world
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Halliday’s model of language function
Language
instrumental
personal
interactional
regulatoryrepresentational
heuristic
imaginative
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Language use in Trinidad and Tobago
Language
Trinidadian English Creoles
Standard English
Tobagonian English Creoles
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Language Proficiency Framework (Cummins, 1980)
Social language
Basic communication
skills
Participating in cultural activities
Playing simple games
Academic Language
Understanding concepts
Technical words
Reading and writing reports,
etc.
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Discussion
0 What are the language demands in schools?
0 What is the role of teachers/administrators in helping students acquire the language needed for school success?
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What is discourse?
0 “Discourses offer particular kinds of subject position and identity through which people come to view their relationships with different loci of power” (Clarke & Newman, 1997)
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What is discourse?
0 “Discourses are understood as sets of related social practices composed of particular ways of using language, acting and interacting, believing, valuing, gesturing, using tools and other artefacts within certain (appropriate) contexts such as that one enacts or recognises a particular social identity or way of doing and being in the world” (Gee et al, 1996 as cited in Lankshear & Knobel, 2006, p. 196)
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The nature of discourse
0 In-depth exploration of a topic
0 Language uses
0 ‘Discourse’- ways of being and doing
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The nature of discourse
0 Texts, such as interviews, newspaper articles, television talk shows, official documents, Internet data, are “constructed in ways which make things happen and which bring social worlds into being” (Wetherell, 2001, p. 16)
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Levels of discourse
0 Macro level
0 Community level
0 Immediate stakeholders
0 School level
0 Classroom level
0 Personal interaction
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What language is in use?
Script Formulation (Edwards,1994)
• description• categorization
Representation
• reflection• generalization
Meaning-Making• confirmation• enactment
Script formulation
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More language in use:Speech Act Theory
■ J.L. Austin (1962) proposed that we do things with words
■ John Searle, his student, elaborated his ideas into a formal theory of speech acts.
■ He proposed FIVE major speech acts, which he said we use to transact everyday business
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Searle’s Speech Acts
■ Assertives [taken to be true]
■ Commissives [promises]
■ Declaratives [performatives]
■ Directives [imperatives]
■ Expressives [emotives]
Jaworowska’s (n.d.) explanation
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Speech Acts in use
■ Write one statement you believe to be true about your students or school.
■ Write one promise your school or the education system makes to children every September. Where is the promise to be found?
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Application
■ What speech acts are most prevalent in your classrooms?
■ When staff meets in your school, what are the predominant speech acts in use? How do these affect the tone of meetings?
■ If your school is extremely efficient at what it does, and has an excellent reputation, which speech acts do you find used relatively rarely? Within specific speech acts (such as assertives) what is it that is communicated?
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What kinds of positions and identities do teachers assume relative to loci of power?
Level 1• Administration / Upper Management• Middle Management – HODs and Deans
Level 2• Teachers
Level 3• Parents
Level 4• Students
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References
■ Edwards, D. (1994). Script formulations. An analysis of event descriptions in conversation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 13, 211-247. [available using a Google search]
■ Searle, J.R. (1969). Speech Acts. An essay in the philosophy of language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [available from Main Library]
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0 3 Ways to speak English
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9fmJ5xQ_mc&sns=fb
0 What makes a good teacher
0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHapv0Tv7vM
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