What are the four functions of language?

Answer 1

1. Speaking

2. Listening comprehension (that is, understanding the language when it is spoken. This may be quite difficult if you are in noisy, crowded bar, for example).

3. Reading

4. Writing

Note that this applies to all languages which are written; it's not something specific to English.

Answer 2

Speaking and Listening are the two essential language skills. Without a speaker and an understander, there can be no language at all.

Reading and Writing allow us to preserve and archive language. If you are able to speak and listen, you can communicate - but you have no way to preserve such communication.

Speaking and listening is how we understand each other. Reading and Writing is how we build on that understanding.

Answer 3

When we learn a language, there are four skillsthat we need for complete communication.

Answer 4

They are: Old English ( often called Anglo-Saxon), Middle English ( 12th to 15th Century ) and Modern English ( beginning roughly with Shakespeare).

Answer 5

1) Paraphrasing

2) Perception Checking

3) Behavior Description

4) Description of feeling

Answer 6

to communicate,to express feelings,to make friends,to socialize.language is one of the things that make humans human.

Answer 7

The basic skills for the English language is reading and writing. For reading, pronunciation of words is a key skill. For writing grammar and spelling are essential.

Answer 8

The four skills in language learning are reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Answer 9

Phonetics phonology syntax grammar