International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (ijsell) Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2014, pp 116-130

Noer Doddy Irmawati, Dr. M.Hum
 
 
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f.
The Heuristic Function 
It includes the use of language to get science, to learn all about the environment. Heuristic 
function is often told in the form of question that need the answer. Research, willing to know, 
is the form of heuristic method to find the reality representation of others. 
g.
The Imaginative Function 
It serves the creation of systems or ideas that have imaginative characteristics. Telling the 
story, reading story, writing novels is the practise of using language imaginative functions. 
The seventh language functions are fulfilling, companying each other and not differentiate them 
(Brown, 2001: 194-195). To have the clear picture about it in general there is a figure of this 
language function. 
Interactional 
Function Perso nal 
Representasional Function 
Function 
Regulation
Heuristic
Function Function 
Instrumental Function Imaginative Function 
Figure 3.
Seventh Language Uses
D.
Language Teaching
1.
The definition and the benefit of Language Teaching 
Teaching language is a process, an action, the way to teach or to transfer knowledge. Nowadays, 
teaching language means helping students to learn individually, and it is known as self study in 
which teacher only gives motivation and stimulation. Language learning has a role as a process of 
activity that has the responsibility in preparing the students becoming “speech community 
members” that can face the changing of everything in globalization era. 
Winkel (1983: 150) says that learning is psychis process or mental process to master the skill, 
habit of attitude that all had, is collected and put and also done in order to give influence and to 
change the behaviour progressive and adaptive one. Usman Effendi (1985: 103) says that 
learning is a changing of behaviour that is manifestated in the change of mastering the role of 
response or new behaviour. It includes the changeof habit, promise, or understanding. 
Suryabrata (1984: 253) says that: 1) learning brings a changing (meaning that there is a change in 
attitude, performance, actualization, and potencial); 2) That changing caused by the effort. So, one 
can be said as a person who has been already studying if he has a new ability caused by his 
realized action. Oemar Hamalik (1980: 28) says that learning is the changing of behaviour caused 
by the result of continuously treatment with the purpose to reach the goal. The changing of the 
new behaviour in this case is from the un-understanding becomes understanding, there is a new 
understanding, changing attitude, habit, skill, attitude of appreciation and also the physical 
changing. The factors that can prove the success of learning can come from external and internal 
factors. Internal factors are physical and psychological dimensions, while the external factors 
include the condition of social, nature, environment, program, facility, teaching-learning process, 
etcetra. 
Brown (2001: 4) says about the definition of language that is a systematic tool to transfer ideas or 
feelings by using meaningful symbols or signs. Learning language is a process to improve the