01 · Framework
A connected model of how language resources become situated action.
Read the frameworkKnowledge base · Language in action
Functional Speech Adaptation
From language knowledge to independent communication.
Functional Speech Adaptation explains how people use and reorganise linguistic, strategic and contextual resources to act in changing real-life situations. This site connects the method with relevant scientific research.
The central question
What happens between knowing and communicating?
Language knowledge matters. Yet independent communication also depends on selecting, reorganising and adjusting that knowledge while interaction is already taking place.
“The object of study is not language knowledge alone, but what a person can do with it when conditions change.”
From knowledge to adaptation
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Knowledge
What the person knows
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Production
How they formulate
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Interaction
How they engage
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Adaptation
How they adjust
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Outcome
What they achieve
Five connected functions: from available knowledge to achieved understanding and action.
One construct, several levels of work
02 · Method
Practice built around meaningful situations, strategic choice and increasing independence.
About the method03 · Assessment
Observation of outcomes, interaction and adaptive response.
Assessment principlesPeople in context
The method becomes visible in real interaction
Adaptation becomes visible between people: across tasks, places, expectations and unequal levels of confidence. The method therefore works with human situations, not language exercises in isolation.
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Different starting points
People arrive with different experiences and resources.
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Changing conditions
Interlocutors, topics and settings shift while interaction is under way.
03
Shared meaning
Adaptation serves achieved understanding, not perfect form in isolation.
Research that explains the method
FrameworkPracticeAssessmentLibrary
From language knowledge to independent communication
Research synthesis · Concept
When communication difficulty became research data
One paper explained · Communication strategies
Making independent communication visible
Research synthesis · Assessment
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