Functionalist Perspective Of Literacy

As a reader, I tend to be more focused on what literacy can give me. In other words, I favor functional literacy over cultural and personal growth literacy. I see that in my literacy inventory log, I checked my social media, homework, and class notes for nearly all my entries. This I identify as functionalist perspective, as functional type literacy implies that language has the specific purpose of conveying information for professional or mundane tasks. Such tasks include repeating instructions, reading emails, writing schedules, and other actions that generally require minimal understanding of language structure. The Functionalist Perspective argues that there is more value in language where it has higher utilitarian capacity. There were