PRELIMS Exam Reviewer
PRELIMS Exam Reviewer
LANGUAGE VIEWS
1. Structuralist View
2. Transformationalist View
3. Functionalist View
4. Interactionist View
1. Structuralist View
- specific framework
- claims that acquiring language involves
> ONE-WAY COMMUNICATION assembling all the components due to
Sender – channel – receiver their interconnected nature
- language system is semiotic
> TWO-WAY COMMUNICATION - a tool for communication, involves
To have feedback spoken expression, arbitrary elements
> MAJOR LEVELS OF LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE
2. Cognitive Ability (Mental Process)
- adapt, acquire language
- curse words / gay lingo
> INTRAPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
- talks to oneself
3. Linguistic Communication
- every aspect of words is important
- parts of speech (adjective, noun,
adverb, pronoun)
> VERB – describes what the subject of a
sentence is doing
* ACTION – physical actions (cry, jump,
eat, kick)
* LINKING – describes the subject (is, has)
> Constructive Criticism – sharpen the 02 NATURE AND CHARACTERISTCS OF
mastery of students LANGUAGE
NATURE OF LANGUAGE
2. Transformationalist View 1. Language as something learnt
- can be related to culture – shaped 2. related to the culture of society
- mental, innate, universal, and creative 3. species-specific, uniformed, and
- create a game using language or unique to humans
design a pop-art and explain their 4. system
designs 5. vocal
- a system for free expression of thought 6. skill subject
(Chomsky, 1980) 7. means for communication
> MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES 8. arbitrary
- ALL humans are capable of mastering a
language if interested to learn 1. Language as something learnt
-through exposure (speech community)
3. Functionalist View and practice (desired and required to
- interaction based on reasons and learn)
scenarios
- more than a set of sentences, “it is a 2. Language as related to the culture of
text, a discourse, an exchange of society
meanings in an interpersonal context” - adaptation of language
- fully realized when it is employed in - adjust to community where he belongs
practical communication
3. Language as species-specific,
4. Interactionist View uniformed, and unique to humans
- Cognitive Ability - sort of identity
- social learning theory of Lev Vygotsky - humans genetically inherited language
- social interactions make a person
master the language 4. Language as a system
- language learning is an active process - needs analysis
and is done through social interaction - system of spoken and written symbols in
- foreigner, children which abstract figures concretely
represent
- system of non-verbal signs
5. Language as Vocal
- Speech is primary, writing is secondary
- a system of spoken and written symbols
> 5 MACRO SKILLS
6. Language as a skill subject > NON – INSTINCTIVE – not biologically
- learning is acquiring skills automated but culturally determined
- macro skills are categorized into
receptive and expressive language skills 2. Productivity and Creativity
- link meaning to words given as long as
other people can understand it
- fixed to create new expression
3. Duality
- phonology (sound system) and meaning
(semantic and pragmatic)
> SEMANTICS – literal meaning
> PRAGMATICS – contextual
4. Displacement
- humans can recall what happened
- can look yourself in the future
- create stories particularly fiction
3. Performative Function
- use to do things / perform / reports an
action
- actions need to be performed / done
- I do.
- I accept.
1. Referential Function
- I apologize.
- CONTEXT
- I promise.
- references an information/cognitive
Emphatic verb
- denotative (mental state)
- Emphasizes verb
- description, contextual information
- Action will be done
- concerned with the content
- I do love you
- The sun rises from the east and sets into
the west.
4. Expressive Function
- Our business hours are 9am-5pm,
- express thoughts, feelings, emotions to
Monday through Friday.
others.
- reports attitudes and emotions
2. Emotive Function
- personal / detailed
- SENDER / ADDRESSER
- “You are such a happy pill.”
- expression of emotional / internal state
- “This is great”
- reaction / initial expression of feelings
- “You are great”
- similar to expressive, but expressive is
- “I love Princess Aurora so much.”
more formal while emotive is an initial
reaction.
- Ouch
- Yuck
- Wow
- Awesome!
- Whew!
3. Conative Function 6. Poetic Function
- RECEIVER / ADDRESSEE - MESSAGE
- causing / preventing an action - focuses on the message and its
- command / fulfill a request aesthetic presentation.
- imperative sentences - involves choosing words carefully
- PERFORMATIVE - descriptive language
- “Come in and join the class.” - richness of language
- “Run.” - literatures
- “Can you show John where to find the - But, soft!
paper clips?” - What light through yonder window
- “Go on, open it!” breaks?
- “Get out of here.”
12. Neurolinguistics
- analyze the different brain functions and
mechanisms that are related to language
comprehension, production, and
acquisition
- deals with mind / brain / neurons
- study how different areas of the brain
are involved in language production and
comprehension
- how language is affected by brain
damage or disease
13. Stylistics
- studies the different authors and writers,
especially their writing styles
- tone / voice / literary language
- study the language used in advertising,
or the language used in literary texts
14. Etymology
- focuses on the inception and evolution
of words
- study the history of the English word
"apple," tracing its origins back to the Old
English word "æppel" and the Proto-
Germanic word "aplaz
05 LINGUISTICS THEORIES AND MODELS MONITOR MODEL
LINGUISTICS THEORIES
1. Behaviorism
2. Nativism / Innatism
LINGUISTIC MODELS
1. Monitor Model
2. Communicative Competence Model
Behaviorism
- behaviorists believe that for language
learning to occur, imitation, drills, and
COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE MODEL
constant practice are very important
1. Grammatical Competence
- language teachers must be proficient
2. Sociolinguistic Competence
enough or possess native-like fluency
3. Discourse Competence
4. Strategic Competence
Nativism / Innatism
The “LAD” by Chomsky, 1965
Language Acquiring Device inborn brain
structure that is supposed to function as a
congenital device for learning symbolic
language
Interactionism
- both biological and social components
- Lev Wygotsky social interaction theory,
which states that children’s language
development is a by – product of
children’s social interactions with the
important people in their lives, more
specifically, their parents and immediate
Grammatical Competence – producing is
more knowledgeable others (MKOs)
a structured comprehensible utterance
(grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation,
- children can only do so much with their
spelling)
own ability (zone of actual
development), but with the social
Sociolinguistic Competence – using
environment surrounding them, help and
socially – determined cultural codes in
support from their parents, peers, and
meaningful ways, often learned
teachers (MKO’s), they can soar to
“appropriacy” (formal or informal ways of
greater heights and achieve great things
greeting)
(zone of proximal development)
Discourse Competence – shaping SYNCHRONIC VS. DIACHRONIC
language and communication
purposefully in different genres (text
types), using cohesion (structural linking)
and coherence (meaningful relationships
in language)
06 DISTINCTIONS OF LINGUISTIC
APPROACHES
1. Descriptive vs. Prescriptive
2. Synchronic vs. Diachronic LANGUAGE VS. PAROLE
3. Language vs. Parole
4. Language Competence vs. Language
Performance
5. Etic vs. Emic
6. Syntagmatic vs. Paradigmatic
7. Speech vs. Writing