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Another expression for function is ...
- action
- communicative competence
- communicative act
- realisation
Knowing who the participants in a conversation are can help learners ...
- ... choose an appropriate style.
- ... pronounce things better.
- ... decide how much information to give.
- ... get the grammar right.
Functional language analysis lies at the heart of ...
- ... linguistic competence
- ... listen-and-repeat approaches to teaching
- ... a communicative approach to teaching language
- ... getting learners to form correct sentences
We can only decide what He may come means by ...
- ... asking the speaker what he/she meant
- ... being aware that it means possibility or permission
- ... guessing from clues around us
- ... understanding it in context
The meaning of The bank's at the end of the road can be made clear by reference to ...
- ... roles
- ... setting
- ... medium
- ... participants
If I say The fridge is over there. I could mean ...
- ... help yourself to a beer.
- ... please put away the cheese.
- ... I'm not waiting on you - get it yourself.
- ... that's where it is.
If we stress should in I don't know where he is, he should be here by now. We are changing the function from making a deduction to ...
- ... asking for explanation.
- ... expressing surprise.
- ... explaining.
- ... expressing doubt.
Intonation can affect the function of what we say.
- False
- True
Functions are ____________ by exponents
- changed
- realised
- affected
- made
Which of the following are examples of adjacency pairs?
Select multiple answers.