Teaching English in Elementary Grades (Language Arts) PDF

Teaching English in the Elementary Grades (Language Arts) The Goals of the K to 12 Curriculum The Outcomes Ultimate goal of the Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum Produce graduates who apply the ❑ language conventions ❑ principles ❑ strategies ❑ skills COMMUNICATIVE (1) interacting w...

Teaching English in the Elementary Grades (Language Arts) The Goals of the K to 12 Curriculum The Outcomes Ultimate goal of the Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum Produce graduates who apply the ❑ language conventions ❑ principles ❑ strategies ❑ skills COMMUNICATIVE (1) interacting with others COMPETENCE (2) understanding and learning other content areas (3) fending for themselves in whatever field of endeavour they may engage in The Outcomes Ultimate goal of the Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum Grammatical/Linguistic Competence Discourse Competence COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Sociolinguistic Competence Strategic Competence The Outcomes Ultimate goal of the Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum Traditional Literacy practices Social Literacy MULTILITERACIES New Literacy practices Professional Literacy The Outcomes ❑ The curriculum aims to help learners acquire highly-developed literacy skills that enable them to understand that English language is the most widely used medium of communication in Trade and the Arts, Sciences, Mathematics, and in world economy. ❑ Furthermore, the curriculum aims to help learners understand that English language is a dynamic social process which responds to and reflects changing social conditions, and that English is inextricably involved with values, beliefs and ways of thinking about ourselves and the world we dwell in. ❑ Through multi-literacy skills, learners will be able to appreciate and be sensitive to sociocultural diversity and understand that the meaning of any form of communication depends on context, purpose and audience. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE and MULTILITERACIES RSTANDING UNDE CULTURES I N TIO RA EG NT N MAKING MEANING THROUGH LANGUAGE AN ST A E R GU UND AN I L AT IZ AL TU EX G O N D I E NG WRITING and REPRESENTING C TR ES AT SES N ER EG IE S -C EN TE RE DNE SS THINKING C O NT A S S E S S M E N T CONS TR UC TI O AL PROGRESSIO SPIR N O PR S d an LE I NTE AR RACTION THEORIES of LANGUAGE TEACHING THEORIES of LANGUAGE LEARNING and ACQUISITION THEORIES of LANGUAGE F E E D B A C K Assessment Activity