LBA

1. LANGUAGE BASED
APPROACH
in teaching
A Fighter’s Lines

2. Language-Based Approach
• Carter (1988) : Language-based approach helps students to focus
attention on the way as to how the language is used.
• Lazar (1993) : Literary texts as resources that cater for language
practice through series of language activities rather than studying
literature for the purpose of acquiring facts and information.
• A student-centred approach
• Utilizing the poem as a tool to learn a language

3. Teacher’s guidelines of
using the lesson plan
• Teacher writes the word “hero” on
the whiteboard.
• Get the students to be in a group
of five (6 groups)
• Instruct them to discuss about the
word written on the whiteboard
• Pick students from a random
group to share their ideas.
• Stage: Pre-reading
• Material:
1. Whiteboard and marker

4. Teacher’s guidelines of
using the lesson plan
• Teacher plays a video while
reciting the poem
• Ask them to read the poem aloud
• Ask the students to remain seated
in the group
• Distribute the task sheet, glue and
an envelope to each group
• Instruct the students to match the
word with their meaning on the
task sheet
• Stage: While reading
• Materials:
• YouTube video
• Task sheet
• Glue
• An envelope containing words in the
poem (refer to appendix 4)

5. Teacher’s guidelines of
using the lesson plan
• Teacher writes an instruction
about the activity
• Distributes the materials for the
scrapbook
• Show a sample of scrapbook
• Describe the things that should b
included in the scrapbook i.e.
characteristics
• Stage: Post reading
• Materials:
• Coloured A4 papers
• Magazines
• Scissors
• Glue
• Ribbon

6. Rationale
• The activity used in the lesson promotes the language used among
the students; group discussions
• “activities like prediction, cloze, ranking tasks, role play, poetry recital,
forum, debate and discussions can be used to create opportunities for
language use in the classroom” (Carter, 1996; Rosli, 1995).
• The reading aloud session gives opportunity for teacher to correct any
pronunciation error made by students
• The making of scrapbook promotes the students to use the language
to describe their hero, as each students need to use language in
describing their hero