4. OUR MOTHER TONGUE
IS CONSIDERED AS OUR FIRST LANGUAGE.
•HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU KNOW?
•WHAT IS YOUR FIRST LANGUAGE AND SECOND LANGUAGE?
•WHICH LANGUAGE ARE YOU PROFICIENT IN?
•HOW DID YOU LEARN THAT LANGUAGE?
5. THE IRONY OF OUR COUNTRY IS THAT
THE FIRST LANGUAGE AT HOME IS OUR
SECOND LANGUAGE IN SCHOOL AND
VICE VERSA.
10. Language learning is AN INSTRUCTIONAL
WAY OF TEACHING a language in which
the children are told about the
STRUCTURE, GRAMMAR RULES and
PATTERNS of a language which they have
to memorize.
Drawbacks:-
A student who has memorized the rules
of the language may be able to succeed
on a standardized test of English
language but may not be able to speak
or write correctly.
LANGUAGE LEARNING
11. By the time a child is 5 years old, she/he
can express ideas clearly and almost
perfectly from the point of view OF
language and grammar. Do their parents sit
with them to explain the workings of the
language? IF WE DON’T TEACH THE
CHILDREN RULES OF THEIR FIRST
LANGUAGE, THEN WHY FOR SECOND
LANGUAGE. It is only through exposure to
the language and meaningful
communication that a language is acquired.
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
12. HOW CAN WE HELP
CHILDREN
ACQUIRE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE?
14. ACTIVITY
• What is PAST PERFECT TENSE? Write this
sentence in past perfect tense:
,
When I woke up in the morning, my mother
___________ for her work. (GO)
• Find the ADVERB in this sentence:
The children reached the shore safely.
15. Don’t scratch your head. Try this:
•Write some actions that had already
taken place when you woke up in the
morning.
When I woke up in the morning, my
mother _______________________.
•Underline the word that tells you more
about the action:
The children reached the shore safely.
16. AVOID METALANGUAGE
There is no point in students knowing
the terms past simple, irregular verbs
or adverb of frequency or degree if
they can’t use the actual structures or
words they refer to.
Our ultimate goal is communication.
18. Read the following sentences:
• The train chugged up the hill.
• We could hear the land mower
chugging in the hockey field.
Children understand and remember
a word better when they actually
see them being used.
22. Mistakes are good
Why did my daughter say feet correctly for a while, and then
go back to calling them foots?
Actually, she hasn't 'gone back' at all; she's gone forward. When
she used the word feet as a toddler, she was just imitating what
she had heard. But now she has learned a rule for making
plurals, which is that you add the s sound to the end of the word.
So she's just applying her new rule to all nouns - even the
exceptions to the rule, like foot/feet.
We adults may not say ‘goed’, ‘standed’ or ‘eated,’ but adding ‘-
ed’ to a verb is the basic way to form the past tense in English.
Most verbs work that way, and any new verb that enters the
language has to form its past tense with ‘-ed’—that’s why the
past tense of ‘blog’ has to be ‘blogged.’ They’ll sort it all out
eventually, but for now, rest assured that this is progress; it's
evident that they’re going beyond imitation and actually learning
the rules of the English language.
23. The ‘Critical Period’ of
language learning
The children can learn as many
languages as exposed to from birth to
the age of twelve years as long as they
interact with speakers of that language
ona n everyday basis.
ENGLISH IS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE IN OUR COUNTRY. English was introduced to us by the Britishers. They made English as the medium of education as they wanted to create a class of people who could serve as a medium for communication between them and the people of the country. Since then, English became a medium of instruction in majority of the schools in our country. Slowly, people realized that in order to connect with the world, learning English is important.
In today’s world, English is no more considered as a language but a skill which can unlock an ocean of opportunities for a person.
ENGLISH AS A LANGUAGE IS INTRODUCED ONLY IN SCHOOLS IN OUR STATE WHERE MAJORITY OF FAMILIES ARE NOT PROFICIENT IN ENGLISH. WHERE AS IN ENGLISH COUNTRIES, THE CHILDREN LEARN IN A LANGUAGE WHICH IS ALREADY THEIR MOTHER TONGUE.
HOW MANY OF US KNOW THE GRAMMAR RULES? DOES IT HINDER YOUR COMMUNICATION? A student who has memorized the rules of the language may be able to succeed on a standardized test of English language but may not be able to aepak or write correctly.
We shouldn’t give importance to terms and definitions. There is no point in students knowing the terms past simple, irregular verbs or adverb of frequency or degree if they can’t use the actual structures or words they refer to. The knowledge of grammar terms will not be of much help.
Instead of asking them to learn word meanings, we can demonstrate the word in a sentence or act it out or illustrate it.
