https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADgo3rGmbPk

READING AS A LANGUAGEPROCESS

(Halliday, Fries)

Reported by:

Balgua, Cherry Lou

Submitted to:

Dr. Lourdes Abiog

Educ.5 Instructor Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina

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READING AS A LANGUAGE PROCESS

It is the process of decoding symbols for the purpose of deriving meaning and/or constructing meaning. It is considered as the 3rd of the four language skills: (1) listening,(2) speaking, (3) reading, and (4) writing.When we're reading whether it's a text or a passage, it is made up of language.Michael Halliday identifies seven functions that language has for children in their earlyyears. Children are motivated to acquire language because it serves certain purposes or functions for them. The first four functions help the child to satisfy physical, emotionaland social needs. Halliday calls them instrumental, regulatory, interactional, andpersonal functions.

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Instrumental: This is when the child uses language to express their needs (e.g.‘Want juice')

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Regulatory: This is where language is used to tell others what to do (e.g. 'Goaway')

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Interactional: Here language is used to make contact with others and formrelationships (e.g. 'Love you, mummy')

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Personal: This is the use of language to express feelings, opinions and individualidentity (e.g. 'Me good girl')

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Heuristic: This is when language is used to gain knowledge about theenvironment (e.g. 'what the tractor doing?')

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Imaginative: Here language is used to tell stories and jokes, and to create animaginary environment.

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Representational: The use of language to convey facts and information.

Michael Halliday and Charles Fries both viewed

reading as a language process

wherein as one reads he carries with him his language skills of listening and speaking.Before a child learns how to read, he first learns to listen to the people around him andafter that follows what they say. Let's take an example: Before a child learns thealphabet, his teacher first pronounces those letters and the child listen first and repeatwhat she said.

-Cherry Lou Balgua-