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Language Across the Curriculum
Paper Code:
EDU- 705
Credits:
3
Contact Hours:
45.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
The course will enable the pupil teachers to:
- understand the language background of students as the direct or seen language users
- create sensitivity to the language diversity that exists in the class room
- understand the nature of classroom discourse and develop strategies for using oral language in classroom
- understand the nature of reading comprehension and writing in specific content areas
- understand interplay of language and society
- understand functions of language
- understand language and speech disorder and make remedial measure too
9.00
Unit I:
CONCEPT OF LANGUAGE
- Meaning and nature of language
- Scope and importance of language
- Functions of language
- Language background
9.00
Unit II:
BASIC CONCEPTS
- Home language
- School language/second language
- Formal and informal language
- Oral and written language: meaning, principles, objectives, relation and differences
9.00
Unit III:
ORAL COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
- Theoretical perspectives on Language Deficits
- Development of oral proficiency
- Classroom discourse
- Discussion as a tool of learning
9.00
Unit IV:
LANGUAGE SKILLS I (LISTENING & SPEAKING)
- Language skills (LSWR): meaning, concepts, importance, co-relation, methods and techniques
- Listening skills: pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch, rhythm and oral aptitute
- Speaking skill: pronunciation, intonation, stress, pitch, rhythm and oral aptitute
9.00
Unit V:
LANGUAGE SKILLS (READING & WRITING)
- Writing skill: aspects of writing – shapes, sounds, meaning, punctuation marks, word, and sentence
- Reading skill: consonants, vowels, words, sentences, silent reading, imitation reading and loud reading
Essential Readings:
SESSIONALWORK (Any One)
- Discuss with students and find out the different languages they speak, prepare a plan to use multilingualism as a teaching strategy
- Identify speech defects of primary level students and plan remedial strategy
- Organizing an activity based game to motivate students for creative questioning
- Close and critical reading/ discussion in small groups
- Conduct a survey in a secondary school to study academic achievement in overall or in specific subject of diverse linguistic students
References:
- Agnihotri, R.K. (1995) Multilingualism as a class room resource. In K.Heugh, A Siegruhn, P. Pluddemann (Eds) Multilingual Education for South Africa Heinemann Educational books.
- Anderson, R.C. (1984) Role of the Readers Scheme in Comprehension, Learning and memory. In R.C. Anderson, J.Aslrom & R.J. Tierney (Edu) Learning to Read in American Schools.
- Bansal R.K. and Harrisson J.B. - (1990) Spoken English for Indian Orient Longman LTD Madras.
- Ladson, Billings G (1995) Towards a Theory of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, American Educational Research Journal.
- NCERT (2006) Position Paper National Focus Group on Teaching of Indian Language (NCF 2005) New Delhi.
- Paliwal, A.K. (2002) Communicative Language Teaching, Sumtri Publication, Jaipur.
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