Role of Language across Curriculum Thursday September 01

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 Thursday, September 01, 2016 Role of Language across Curriculum 2

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 History Teacher The idea of suffixes The History teacher has been introduced in can introduce the new English lessons. suffix ‘-ism’ and give examples such as ‘patriotism’ or ‘colonialism’, or consolidate familiar suffixes, like ‘ion’ in ‘rebellion’. Science Teacher Science teacher can add few words to the student vocabulary list such as “Metabolism” , “gravitation” 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%) 28 30 25 25 20 22 18 16 19 17 16 Language Subject 15 Non-Language Subject 10 5 0 V VI VII & VIII Thursday, September 01, 2016 IX 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

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