Exploring the Vital Role of Language in Curriculum Integration
Discover the significance of language in curriculum integration, its impact on teaching effectiveness, student learning, and the collaborative roles of language and content teachers in enhancing academic outcomes.
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Role of Language across Curriculum Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 1
Language : a system and more than communication skills linked to the thinking process a tool for conceptualising, for thinking, for networking supports mental activity and cognitive precision for academic purposes helps to express thoughts more clearly and this is especially true for writing helps to structure discourse and practise discourse functions Role of Language across Curriculum 2 Thursday, September 01, 2016
Benefits of an LAC approach For the school : To ensure organizational structure to formulate and implement language policy across the curriculum enables teachers to contribute For the teacher : To use the language to teach more effectively and help students learn more effectively For the students : To minimize the problems of adjusting to the new medium of instruction and to learn the subject content better. Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 4
Roles of content subject Teachers and Language Teachers Language teachers introduce and teach the skills, reinforcing them from time to time in language lessons. Content subject teachers re-teach those skills or introduce related skills/concepts in their lesson, integrating language and content. Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 5
Implementation example Language Teacher The idea of suffixes has been introduced in English lessons. History Teacher The History teacher can introduce the new suffix -ism and give examples patriotism colonialism , consolidate suffixes, like ion in rebellion . Science Teacher Science teacher can add few words to the student vocabulary list such as Metabolism , gravitation such as or or familiar Similarly If a students develops good language knowledge he/ she can understand a mathematical or science problem better Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 6
Case Study Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 7
Weekly Distribution of Periods Class (no. of periods) Language Subject Non-Language Subject V (34) 18 (53%) 16 (47%) VI (39) 17 (43%) 22 (47%) VII & VIII (44) 19 (43%) 25 (47%) IX (44) 16 (36%) 28 (64%) 30 28 25 25 22 19 20 18 17 16 16 Language Subject 15 Non-Language Subject 10 5 0 V VI VII & VIII IX Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 8
Conclusion Slowly Spreading Training to implement integrating language into the subject-matter teaching Curriculum Planning and teaching methodology Changes in attitude and mentality Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 9
Thank You! Any Questions Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 10
