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LinguaLinks Library 5.0 Subject Index

LinguaLinks Library contains the entire contents of 149 books or book-length works and 223 SIL journal issues. There are also hundreds of glossary entries and bibliography citations. The Subject Index contains more than 3,900 entries.

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Communicative functions (Language Learning)

Communicative competence (Language Learning)

General

Modular resources

• Common purposes or functions of language (in Common purposes or functions of language)

• Language has functional meaning (in Language Learning Principles)

Full-text resources

• Focusing on language functions (in Leave me alone! Can't you see I'm learning your language?)

• General communication ability: Topics and language functions (in Language learning in the real world for non-beginners)

• Other resources you might want to consider (in Kick-starting your language learning: Becoming a basic speaker through fun and games inside a secure nest)

• Suggestions for covering a basic range of language functions and communication situations (in Kick-starting your language learning: Becoming a basic speaker through fun and games inside a secure nest)

Bibliographic resources

• Brumfit and Johnson 1979: The communicative approach to language teaching (in Bibliography (Language Learning))

• Finocchiaro and Brumfit 1983: The functional-notional approach (in Bibliography (Language Learning))

• Guntermann and Phillips 1982: Functional-notional concepts: Adapting the foreign language textbook (in Bibliography (Language Learning))

Cognitive

• Cognitive functions (in Common purposes or functions of language)

Conversation maintenance

• Functions for managing conversations (in Common purposes or functions of language)

• Language is used interactively in conversation (in Language Learning Principles)

• Learn responses to keep the conversation going (in Language Learning Principles)

Developing competence in

• Functions guidelines (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 1 guidelines for reading: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 1 guidelines for speaking: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 1 guidelines for writing: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 2 guidelines for reading: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 2 guidelines for speaking: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 2 guidelines for writing: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 3 guidelines for listening: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 3 guidelines for reading: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 3 guidelines for speaking: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Stage 3 guidelines for writing: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

Self-expressive

• Self-expressive functions (in Common purposes or functions of language)

Social

• Social functions: Interacting with other people (in Common purposes or functions of language)

Survival

• Learning to interpret basic survival functions (in Developing Your Language Proficiency)

• Learning to read items to help you in basic survival situations (in Developing Your Language Proficiency)

• Stage 1 guidelines for listening: Functions (in Guidelines for a language and culture learning program)

• Survival functions: Meeting your most basic needs (in Common purposes or functions of language)

Techniques focusing on

• Techniques for practicing communicative functions (in Techniques and Activities for Self-directed Language Learners)

• The Dialogue Strip technique (in Techniques and Activities for Self-directed Language Learners)

• Example: Illustrating a greeting exchange (in Techniques and Activities for Self-directed Language Learners)