READING AS A

LANGUAGE PROCESS
Reading is the process of decoding
symbols for the purpose of deriving
INTERACTIONAL
meaning and/or constructing meaning.

Ex: Sh e t er ir

Sh ee t = sheet sh ir t =shirt
 FOUR LANGUAGE
SKILLS

I Receptive Productive
O
N U
Listening Speaking
P T
U P
Reading Writing U
T
T
 READING AS A
COMMUNICATION PROCESS
INTERACTIONAL
Language is a code system used by humans to
communicate.
CLARITY
INTERACTIONAL
Ex: Many students attended the student council
meeting.

Ninety-five college students attended Tuesday’s

student council meeting.
SIMPLICITY

INTERACTIONAL
 Ex: Shall we partake of our repast?

 Shall we eat
ADAPTED LANGUAGE

INTERACTIONAL
 Ex: When preachers caused a stir talking about
sexuality to a group of women.

 Luzon politicians were not well received by Mindanao

groups.
FORCEFUL

 Ex: He speaks at length while saying little.

 He spews forth words- and says nothing.

VIVID LANGUAGE
INTERACTIONAL
 Ex: Very good salesman….crackerjack
persuader
 Dishonest and evil….Festering corruption
 Trouble spot….Seething hell
 Food for Thought:

INTERACTIONAL
All four skills facilitate language learning, Language learning is
like learning swimming. You cannot teach swimming to
someone by sitting at the bank of the river and giving lecture.
For this, purpose you will have jump in the river. In the same
way, language cannot be learned by just cramming the rules of
the grammar or lecture, It can be learn through conversation
and discussion.
 Seven functions that language
has for children in their early
INTERACTIONAL years
(Michel Halliday 1975)
Instrumental
INTERACTIONAL
 Regulatory
INTERACTIONAL
Interactional
INTERACTIONAL
 Personal
INTERACTIONAL
Heuristic
INTERACTIONAL
Imaginative
INTERACTIONAL
 Representational
INTERACTIONAL
Questions:

I. Multiple Choice

1. What skill receives information from listening and reading?

A.) RECEPTIVE
B.) WRITING
C.) PRODUCTIVE
D.) SPEAKING

2. It is a skill that one needs to produce something as evidence that you know a language.

A.) RECEPTIVE
B.) WRITING
C.) PRODUCTIVE
D.) SPEAKING

3. The process of decoding symbols for the purpose of deriving meaning and/or constructing meaning.

A. LANGUAGE
B. READING
C. LISTENING
D. WRITING
4. Who said that children are motivated to develop language because it serves
certain purposes or functions for them.

A. MICHAEL DOUGLAS
B. MICHAEL KORS
C. MICHAEL HALLIDAY
D. MICHAEL LEARNS

5. It is a code system used by humans to communicate.

A. INSTRUMENTAL
B. PERSONAL
C. HEURISTIC
D. LANGUAGE
II. TRUE OR FALSE

6. Clarity states that the reader can more easily and immediately understand
language when the code symbols are concrete rather than abstractions and
generalizations.

7. Adapted Language states that words of expression should relate to reader’s

age, educational attainment, gender, ethnic origin other personal factors.

8. Simplicity, states that complex wording is written for the sake of verbal
erudition is less easily understood, compared with what is expressed directly and
to the point.

9. In Heuristic, language is used to gain knowledge about the environment.

 
10. In Instrumental, the child uses language to express their needs.