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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.

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

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

Interactional: Here language is used to make contact with others and

formrelationships (e.g. 'Love you, mummy')

Personal: This is the use of language to express feelings, opinions and

individualidentity (e.g. 'Me good girl')

Heuristic: This is when language is used to gain knowledge about theenvironment

(e.g. 'what the tractor doing?')

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

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-