The English Language Proficiency LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS and FORMS standards are written as pathways to the Oregon English Language Arts standards. The ELP Standards are designed to supplement the ELA standards to ensure that LEP develop proficiency in both the English lang uage and the concepts and skills contained in the ELA standards. They can be found on the web a www.ode This section contains language functions and forms that native English speakers acquire mostly naturally at These language before entering school or may be functions and forms, however, need to be explicitly taught to English language learners They taught to ELLs at all grade levels, and as the need and context arises. Forms of a language deal with the internal grammatical structure of words. The relationship between boy and boys, for example, and the relationship (irregular) between man and men would be forms of a language. A language function refers to the purpose for which speech or writing is being used. In speech these include: giving instructions introducing ourselves making requests