2. LANGUAGE LEARNING
• Becoming aware of the nuances and meanings of a language is part
of language learning
• By increasing students’ language awareness the student are better
able to understand, appreciate and use the language
4. INTRODUCTION
• What is language awareness?
• Background
• How do we build awareness in the SL classroom?
• How can student’s language awareness be increased?
• Current and future trends and directions
5. WHAT IS LANGUAGE AWARENESS?
• ‘A person’s sensitivity to and
conscious awareness of the
nature of language and its role
in human life’( Donmall)
• ‘An understanding of the human
faculty of language and its role
in thinking, learning and social
life’
6. BACKGROUND
• The concept of language awareness is not new. Van Essen,
Donmall and Van lier are conceptulised this idea of Language
awareness in different ways
• It is closely related to the whole language movement which
started in the US in the 1970
7. LANGUAGE AWARENESS IN CLASSROOM
• Organisational structure
• Grammatical Structure
• Style and tone
• Word choice
• Reading/ Pronounce Strategies
8. HOW CAN STUDENT’S LANGUAGE AWARENESS BE
INCREASED?
• Learn concept in SL through an Examination of their own
language’s structure
• Word etymology can also be used to see patterns in word
formation and related meanings
9. CONTINUE
• Many Activities that can done
to help students in increasing
their own language awareness.
E.g , Synonyms and expression
• Open Discussion
• Language variation or Dialect
10. CURRENT AND FUTURE TRENDS AND DIRECTIONS
• Language Awareness has created an identity that assures it a place
within educational linguistics.
• A number of researchers are now looking at this Language studies
including awareness and linguistic
11. CONCLUSION
• Language awareness is part of what the teachers, choose
to teach. As language teacher know, there is much more
to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and
grammar; reproducing them in either written or oral form.
