INTRODUCTION: INVENTORY OF LEARNER’S BIOGRAPHY

Purposive Communication

Name:_________________________________________________________________________
Section:______________________________ Date: ___________________________

Speech community is “a community sharing rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech,
and the rules for the interpretation of at least one linguistic variety” (Hymes, 1974).

Language Biodata Form

How many languages do you speak? Identify I can speak four languages:
these languages.
-English

-Tagalog

-Surigaonon

-Bisaya

What is/are your first language/s or mother I speak the mother tongues Bisaya and
tongue/s? Surigaonon.

How did you acquire your first language/s or
mother tongue/s
Both sides of my family speaks Bisaya, that is
how i learned how to speak Bisaya. When i was
6 years old i moved to Surigao and lived there
for 13 years, it was because of my peers and
the people around me that i learned how to
speak Surigaonon.

What skills can you perform using your first I can communicate with people who only speak
language/s? Bisaya, and to those who only speak
Surigaonon.

What skills can you perform using your second My second language would be English. I can
language/s? communicate with foreigners using the English
language and i also create poems and other
compositions using this language.

How did you learn your second language/s? I learned English when i was very young
because my mother talked to me in English in
order to train me so that I won't have trouble
understanding at nursery school.

What are your language (L2) strengths? I think i can communicate fluently using
English, and i have written more than a few
compositions using the English language.
What are your language (L2) weaknesses? There are English words that i am unfamiliar
and don't know the meaning of.

Which language is your favorite and why? My favorite language is English because i like
to create poems and other compositions using
this language.

WHAT TO DO:
1. Exchange form with a course mate and read it.
2. Write a narrative paragraph based on his Language Biodata Form using the other task
sheet, “My Language Biography”.
3. Write your name as the biographer. Return the two forms to her/him.

My Language Biography

Name: ____________________________________________________________________
Biographer: ________________________________________________________