Language awareness and role of teacher as teacher of language

1. LANGUAGE
AWARENESS
PRESENTED BY REENA KHASATIYA SEM3
DEPT. OF ENGLISH MKBU
ON PAPER NO. 12 ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING

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

3. MIGHT HAVE THIS QUESTIONS IN MIND
question

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.