Learning Functional Categories with Zybro Language Laboratory
The functional categories of language according to Mary Finocchiaro
(the author of English as a Second/Foreign Language) comes under five headings such as
personal, interpersonal, directive, referential, and imaginative. Digital language lab
is the latest technology adopted by teachers worldwide to develop language and
communicative competence of students. For that, the system is integrated with a wide
range of materials for using language in real-world situations.
A situation can affect differences of language in the use of dialects, formal and
informal usage and the mode of expression. Zybro language lab is provides with materials
that help students clarify and express their thoughts or feelings, and everyday moods
and reactions including joy, pleasure, surprise, likes, disappointment etc. The
interpersonal exchanges included in the software enables students to establish and
maintain desirable relationships in the social and working scenarios. On the other hand,
the referential contexts which demands talking or reporting of actions, events, or
people and talking about language are incorporated in the software which helps students
to identify things or people in the classroom, the school and the community, paraphrase,
summarize, or translate and to ask for explanations of something to compare and contrast
things etc. Imaginative category which comprises of topics involving creativity and
artistic expression and directive section including accepting or refusing direction and
much more is contained in the modules of Zybro.
Through intensive practice using the Zybro language lab, students will be able to
communicative proficiently developing creative and convergent thinking and their
interest in various literary forms.