While preparing students for a school exhibition, a teacher organizes…
2026
While preparing students for a school exhibition, a teacher organizes role-play activities where learners must negotiate, make decisions, and express their needs. Which function of language is most directly supported by this approach?
Answer: A. Developing life skills such as negotiation and decision-making — ConceptLanguage has a functional role when learners use it to achieve real-world purposes, solve problems, negotiate, and express needs. Communicative and…
- A.
Developing life skills such as negotiation and decision-making
- B.
Establishing classroom discipline through instructions
- C.
Limiting language use to reading assignments
- D.
Enforcing cultural values through direct teaching
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Correct answer: A
Concept
Language has a functional role when learners use it to achieve real-world purposes, solve problems, negotiate, and express needs.
Communicative and experiential tasks connect language use with interpersonal competence and decision-making, thereby developing life skills.
Application
In the role-play, learners must negotiate, choose among alternatives, and state what they need. They therefore practise communication while also exercising negotiation and decision-making in a realistic social situation.
Contrast
Establishing discipline through instructions is a regulatory, teacher-directed use of language.
Limiting language to reading assignments emphasizes receptive literacy rather than purposeful social interaction.
Direct teaching of cultural values emphasizes transmission of norms rather than practising choices and negotiation.
Cross-check
The stem explicitly requires learners to negotiate, decide, and express needs; each action is practised through language in the role-play.
Result
Therefore, the approach most directly supports developing life skills such as negotiation and decision-making.