1. LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: COMMUNICATION 0. Introduction Mª del Carmen Alario Trigueros Departamento de Didáctica de la Lengua y la Literatura E.U. de Educación de Palencia. Universidad de Valladolid. www.educacionpalencia.es

2. Education means providing tools to develop what our students bring within a given society. Act & value, assume new challenges Think, negociate and share Respond Observe the world and life: explain it with word Language, Culture & Life. Communication representation

3. Representative Function Communicative Function LANGUAGE & DEVELOPMENT: FUNCTIONS Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in our mind.Language helps building images/symbol of the world/experience in our mind. Regulatory Function Informational Function Language regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic developmLanguage regulates behaviour-rules-self-control-Ethic developm Language helps us to share information.Language helps us to share information. Language help us to participate in a coommon taskLanguage help us to participate in a coommon task Symbolic Function

4. SKILL, COMPETENCES & CAPACITIES Listening and understanding Listening and understanding (Knowledge required: chunk and associate meaning to the oral steam) Responding and Speaking Responding and Speaking (Knowledge required: Using social and communicative skills in the interaction. Pourposeful usage of gaze, non.verbal language, paralanguage and sentences) Oral Interaction Oral Interaction ( Identify their role in a context, use social and communication rules to participate in a discourse, recognize and addapt to a text structure and requirements) Reading and understanding/ reading interaction Reading and understanding/ reading interaction (identify the intention, generate a previous idea –identify, localize, select and verify information) Writing and written Interaction Writing and written Interaction (expresing ideas, feelings, events, wishes in and organized way. It requires: – Planning, selecting, organizing and following a structure)

5. Adult/child interaction analysis

6. Discourse : stretches of language perceived to be meaningful, unified, and purposive Discourse type/ Texts : Narrative, Descriptive, Procedural/ Instructional, Argumentative Texts. Speech act : an utterance defined in terms of intention and/or effect Schema : a mental representation essential to discourse processing (Cook: 1989) TODAY'S NEWTERMS TODAY'S NEW TERMS Task : “An activity where the target language is used by the learner for a communicative purpose (goal) in order to achieve an outcome” (Jane Willis) Script: a stereotypical sequence of events in a standard situation Competence: knowledge of the world and themselves activated and used at a given situaction

7. SCRIPTS A script is a stereotypical sequence of events in a standard situation Scripts organize the knowledge associated with common events Scripts represent a casual chain of events and states that describe a situation People usually omit many of the parts of the casual chain when telling Scripts are essential to story understanding as a means of filling in the details that are not explicitly mentioned but would normally be inferred.

8. ELEMENTS IN A SCRIPT ELEMENTS IN A SCRIPT Actors Actors (roles) Props Props Actions Actions (each actor carries out a serie of actions to meet his/her goal within the script/s. Can be grouped in plans) Moves Moves

9. Now, decide your targets