Explanation: Leonard Bloomfield was an American linguist who led the development of structural linguistics in the United States during the 1930s and the 1940s.

Explanation: English is a language of the court in India. Not only in the supreme court but also in the high courts and district courts, the only suitable language is English.

Explanation: The language is primarily observed is speech. Speech is a fundamental thing in language learning, reading and writing are secondary.

Explanation: Halliday explains the seven basic functions of language. These functions are

● The instrumental function

● The regulatory function

● The interaction function

● The personal function

● The heuristic function

● The imaginative function

● The representational function

Explanation: M.A.K. Halliday explains the seven basic functions of language in his book "Exploration in the functions of language".

Explanation: Language is authentically called a skill rather than a subject. The skill of language is not altogether an intellectual activity. It is more of doing than of knowing.

Explanation: Mother tongue is learnt quite automatically, whereas a second language is learnt consciously. Learning a second language is a painful process and it requires a lot of practice.

Explanation: Dr Michael was a professor at Dhaka University and is the father of the new method of teaching English, called Dr West's new method. He has laid a great amount of importance to reading. He strongly felt that the Indian students are required to concentrate on loud reading on top of practicing silent reading.

Explanation: Structural approach is the situation approach to language teaching. It is based upon the assumption that the language can best be learnt when its need is felt in a situation. This approach promotes speech habits of students with repeated oral drills for various structural patterns.

Explanation: The different types of reading are loud reading ,silent reading, intensive reading and extensive reading.