1. The awesome Group
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Everyone Is A Specialist
HIJRAWATI S SYAMSUL BAHRI FITRIANI HILAL
IJHA SYAMBA FITRI

2. Comprehension
of Sentences

3. The nature of language
Language used for negotiating, discussing and explaining.
Language is the main vehicle of the human

4. Psychology of language
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Communication with language is carried out through two basic human activities :
1
Speaking
People put ideas into words,
talking about perception,
feeling and intention they
want other people to grasp.
2
Listening
They turn words into ideas, trying
to reconstruct the perception,
feeling and intentions they were
meant to grasp

5. The study of the language
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3 main points :
The Structure of the Language
The Function of the Language
Process in the Use of Language

6. 1.The Structure of the Language
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4 Steps and Description
Sentences
Propositional Content
Words
Grammar

7. 2.The Function of the Language
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3 aspects of the language :
Speech
Acts
Thematic
Structure
Propositional
Content
Speakers expect listeners to
recognize the fucntion of the
sentences they speak and to act
accordingly
The speakers’ judgements about
the listeners’ current mental
states(halliday, 1970)
Sentences must have content to
convey the ideas the listeners are
to be informed of, asked about,
warned about, or requested to
fulfill.

8. 3. Processes in the use of Language
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How did the speakers select the words-all at once, from the firt to the last. From content words to
fuction words, or some other way. How did the speakers retreive the right words from memory and
produce them in an order that conform to English syntax?

9. Comprehension of Sentences
Chapter 2

10. What is Comprehension?
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Narrow Sense
The building of meaning from the
sound
Broader sense
For listeners normally put the
interpretation they have build to
work
Comprehension has two common senses:

11. The processes in Comprehension
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2 processes
1
Construction Process
Concerned with the way
listeners construct an
interpretation of a sentence
from the speaker’s words
2
Utilization Process
Concerned with how listeners
utilize this interpretation for
futher puposes.for registaring
new information, answering
question, following orders,
registaring promises and the
like

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