Halliday's Functions of Child Language Flashcards
What are Halliday’s seven functions of language?
A) Regulatory, interactional, representational, heuristic, imaginative, personal, and instrumental
B) Personal, emotional, imaginative, educational, representational, regulatory, and heuristic
C) Heuristic, instrumental, representational, interactional, social, emotional, and imaginative
D) Personal, instrumental, educational, representational, interactional, emotional, and regulatory
A) Regulatory, interactional, representational, heuristic, imaginative, personal, and instrumental
Which of Halliday’s functions involves language being used to express the speaker’s feelings or emotions?
A) Regulatory
B) Personal
C) Heuristic
D) Imaginative
B) Personal
The instrumental function of language is used to:
A) Ask questions
B) Express desires and needs
C) Build social relationships
D) Create stories and imaginative worlds
B) Express desires and needs
Which of the following is an example of the regulatory function of language?
A) A child saying “Where’s my toy?”
B) A child asking “Can I have some milk, please?”
C) A child telling someone “Don’t do that!”
D) A child saying “Let’s go outside.”
C) A child telling someone “Don’t do that!”
Halliday’s representational function of language is used to:
A) Create and maintain social relationships
B) Ask for help or information
C) Convey information about the world
D) Express desires and wishes
C) Convey information about the world
An example of the heuristic function is:
A) A child asking “Why is the sky blue?”
B) A child saying “Give me that!”
C) A child singing a song
D) A child telling a story about a trip
A) A child asking “Why is the sky blue?”
Which function of language is demonstrated when a child says “I like ice cream”?
A) Representational
B) Personal
C) Heuristic
D) Regulatory
B) Personal
The interactional function of language is primarily used to:
A) Gain information about the world
B) Establish social relationships
C) Express the child’s feelings
D) Give instructions to others
B) Establish social relationships
An example of the imaginative function of language is:
A) A child asking “Can I have some juice?”
B) A child telling a made-up story
C) A child saying “I don’t want to go to bed.”
D) A child explaining how to build a toy
B) A child telling a made-up story
Halliday’s instrumental function of language can be seen when a child:
A) Asks “What’s this?”
B) Says “I want that toy”
C) Describes a picture
D) Tells a joke
B) Says “I want that toy”
Which of Halliday’s function is demonstrated by a child saying “Let’s pretend to be animals”?
Imaginative
What does Halliday’s representational function focus on?
A) Asking for help
B) Giving instructions
C) Describing or reporting events
D) Expressing feelings
C) Describing or reporting events
The personal function of language can be seen when a child:
A) Describes what they see
B) Expresses an opinion or preference
C) Asks a question
D) Tells a story about their day
B) Expresses an opinion or preference
Which of the following is an example of the regulatory function?
A) A child saying “Let’s go outside”
B) A child asking “What time is it?”
C) A child telling someone “Stop that!”
D) A child explaining how to play a game
C) A child telling someone “Stop that!”
Which of Halliday’s functions is used when a child asks “How do you do this?”
Heuristic
