THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE 1

THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE 1

Language is structural view

               

The first and the most traditional of the language’s theories is language is structural view. It views the language as a system of related elements structurally for the coding of meaning. Elements in this case refer to the phonological units (phonemes), lexical items (function words and structure word) grammatical unit (clause, phrases, and sentence).

“Although the language is arbitrary, it does not mean that we can create a sentence freely without limitation and conventionality. We can imagine that what will happen if we use our private language or sentences to communicate with the other people. Of course the culture shock will happen, no one will understand and misunderstanding will dominate the interaction. That is not language because language is to understand each other’s.

We can’t to say “Boke” to address the thing to be place to write but it has special structure of the character to write or to say it, “book”. When we want to know something, we cannot say “that what is?” or “whet is dot” but we have to say what is that? Etc. each of the language has a special structure that is conventional to use by the user.

In our mother tongue sasak also, it is the same. “Lalo” for “go” may not be changed with “lola” it has special lexical item. “Aku lalo ojok peken nane” may not be changed with “ojok nane peken lalo aku”. It has a special grammatical unit to use it.

in the beginning the specialist considered that structure is the most important thing to be the base of teaching language. It was coursed by the reason above. Most of the teacher give strong emphasize on structure when they teach language. The teaching learning process will be spent to analyses the structure of sentences. The formula or the patent of the sentences should be memorized by the students. The communication is not the target of the teaching learning process but how to remember the patent of sentence structure is the priority one.

Maybe you still remember that the situation in teaching learning of English in the beginning of your class. In 1993 I was in junior high school the first class at there that was the first time I learned English in my life. Before coming there I imagined that it was so happy if I could speak English. I prepared myself by buying some books. I got 900, that is the special book that content of dialogues. Every day before   attend to the class for the new season I always read it enthusiastically with the mind that was pulled of intention to be the best in English lesson. The hope was not same with reality that I found in the class. My teacher gave us freezer on remembering the sentence rule or tenses and it confused me. In the climax of my confuse I bought a big paper and wrote all of the patents on it. I stack it at the sky of my room. I started to memorize by looking up while laid down on my bad but until now I never memorize it.