Concept of Language: Definitions, Functions, and Characteristics
Explore the concept of language through its definitions, functions, and characteristics. Learn how language facilitates communication, expression of identity, and emotional release. Delve into principles of language teaching and the vital role of language across various disciplines.
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Concept of Language, definitions, functions, principles and characteristics.
Concept of language Language is a form of human communication by means of a system of a symbols principally transmitted by vocal cord. A language is a system of signs for encoding and decoding information. Language refers to the cognitive faculty that enables humans to learn and use systems of complex communication. Language, a system of conventional spoken, manual, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release.
Definition of language Henry Sweet: language may be defined as the expression of thought by means of speech sound. Encyclopaedia Britannica: language is a system of conventional spoken or written symbols by means of which human beings, as member of social group participants in its cultures, communicate. Sapir(1921): Language is a purely and non- instinctive method of communicating ideas, emotions and desires by means of a system of voluntarily produce symbol
Principles of language teaching Meaningful learning. Self confidence. The language culture connection. Communicative competence. Principles of speech, basic sentences, habits Principles of vocabulary control Principles of shaping responses Principles of situational use of language Principles of immediate reinforcement
Characteristics of language Language is symbolic. Language is social. Language is systematic. Language is productive and creative. Language is vocal. Language is arbitrary.(based on or individual direction or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice)
Role of language across the curriculum Knowledge development. Skill development. Ability development. Thought development. Personality development. Thinking development. Emotion and conscience development.
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