Language Across the Curriculum (B.El.Ed. 2nd Year)

 

Student Contact Hours: 90

Maximum Mark: 50

• Internal Assessment: 15
• Annual Examination: 35

This course aims to provide an understanding of language characteristics of learners, language usage, socio-cultural aspects of language learning, language as a process and the functional use of language across the curriculum.

P 2.1 LANGUAGE ACROSS THE CURRICULUM SYLLABUS

UNIT 1 

Language and learning : language as a means Of construction Of reality; language and experience; concept-formation.

UNIT 2

Language at school : distinction between language as a school-subject and language as a means of learning and communication; the concept of register and style; different school-subjects as registers.

UNIT 3

Basic Language competencies required at school: oraly, listening, reading and writing. Special study of reading cognitive basis of reading, analysis of the tasks involved in reading, motivation to read, stages of learning to read, reading ability.

UNIT 4

The child's language and the school : school language and home language; language as an aspect Of teacher-child relationship; language environment of school; language Of textbooks in different subjects.

Suggested projects :

1. To elaborate their theoretical understanding students should undertake a project

involving listening to children's reading, miscue analysis, developing a reading test

and administering it.

2.  Analysis of text books and other materials used in different subjects from the point

Of view Of registers and styles used in them.

Source: B.El.Ed handbook 

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