Language awareness

Language awareness

What is language awareness?

Language awareness blends:

a) content about language

b) language skill

c) attitudinal education

d) metacognitive opportunities

How do we build language awareness in the SL classroom?

By examining learners own language’s structure

• Word order
• Word etymology
• See patterns in word formation

How can students’ language awareness be increased?

Open discussions

Language Variation or Dialect

Synonyms and Expressions

Word Origins

Using lots of activities which help students to analyze the target language

Learning to use context clues or global understanding:

Social Register

What is language awareness?

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What are the benefits of teaching and learning through an additional language?

Teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures, improves students’ cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school.

Conversational and academic language

Conversational language requires skills to understand and take part in everyday conversations and activities. These basic language skills are used in informal communication, such as buying lunch at school, talking on the phone to friends, or playing sports.

Academic language refers to more formal language which is essential for students to successfully demonstrate what they have learned and achieved. This includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing about content in a specific subject area, for example reading about a particular event in history or discussing a new mathematical concept.

Scaffolding

social constructivism

Lev Vygotsky (1896–1934)

zone of proximal development

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