Completar frases M. A. K. HallidayVersión en línea "A rich and adaptable instrument" por Nathalie García 1 educational model Language linguistics child´s child model language model model Language dominant child variety child functions models models In an context the problem for is to elaborate some account of language that is relevant to the work of the English teacher . Perhaps the simplest of the of language , and one of the first to be evolved , is what we may call the instrumental . The becomes aware that language is used as a means of getting things done . as an instrument of control has another side to it , since the is well aware that language is also a means whereby others exercise control over him . Closely related to the instrumental , therefore is the regulatory model of language . This refers to the use of language to regulatory behavior of others . is used to define and consolidate the group , to include and to exclude , showing who is the one of us and who is nor , no impose status , and to contest status that is imposed and humor , ridicule , deception , persuasion , all the forensic and theatrical arts of language are bought into play . The was heuristic of language derived from his knowledge of how language has enable him to explore his environment . The it is very easily for the adult , when he attempts to formulate his ideas about the nature of , to be simple unaware of most of what language means to the child ; this is not because he no longer uses language in the same of different , but because only one of these functions in general , is the subject of conscious attentions , so that the corresponding is the only to be externalized .