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The Need for Learning to Use Language Across the Curriculum and Using Language to Learn

Understanding the role of language across the curriculum is essential for effective learning. This approach encourages students to use language skills like reading, writing, and speaking in every subject, helping them build critical thinking, improve comprehension, and enhance retention. Explore how using language to learn fosters a well-rounded, inclusive educational experience.

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The Importance of Developing Language Skills for Subject-Specific Teaching and CLIL

Language skills are essential for effective learning and teaching. In subject-specific contexts, strong language abilities foster better comprehension, critical thinking, and inclusivity, especially through approaches like Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).

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Modes of Human Activities Involving Language: Communication, Learning, and Cultural Expression

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Language is a cornerstone of human interaction, influencing communication, learning, and cultural activities. This article explores the diverse ways language impacts human activities, fostering deeper social bonds and cognitive growth.

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Understanding the Concept of Language Across the Curriculum for Effective Learning

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Language Across the Curriculum is an educational approach that emphasizes language as the foundation for learning in every subject. Discover how this integration benefits students’ comprehension, communication, and academic success

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) in Bilingual and Multi-lingual Education

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Content and language integrated learning is different from traditional learning and can be more motivating and interesting. It provides opportunities to use a new language for learning new knowledge. Thus, it makes good use of time since both content and language are learned together. It enables learner to transfer knowledge and skills across subjects thereby

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Importance of Reading Comprehension in Non-linguistic Subject Matter Learning

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The importance of reading comprehension in non-linguistic subjects cannot really be undermined. What differs here from the conventional strategies in comprehending linguistic passages is the emphasis on visualization. Non-linguistic representations enhance student’s ability to use mental images to represent and elaborate on knowledge. To elaborate, knowledge is stored in two forms- 1. Linguistic form (as

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Need for Development of Language Skills and Competence to Subject Specific Teaching

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Language skills are the building blocks of language and speech development. The acquisition of such skills are necessary particularly in the early years of school, if the child has to be successful in school. The development of these skills are facilitated by interaction with others, with having a shared focus and also playing in an

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Language in Subject Specific VS Foreign Language B.Ed Notes

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Language Across Curriculum (LAC) in the narrow sense focuses on the role of language in subject specific learning and teaching. In addition to the many basic goals of Language-1, it leads to other forums of functional language use, to mastering new domains and discourse types and moving towards a more explicit or pre-scientific mode of

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Language as an Instrument of Thought | B.Ed Notes

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There are many theories regarding the influences and relation between language and thought. As a method of fact, when we introspect, we seem to realize that we think in the language that we speak. The use of language is not only confined to it being the medium through which we communicate to our ideas to

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7 Problems of Language and Learning | B.Ed Notes

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The basic problems of language and learning are as follows:- 1. Language Transfer It implies the interference of the mother tongue in the second language learning. Generally, learners apply knowledge of their native language to learn a second language and this might cause problems in internalizing the target language. 2. Cultural Difference Sometimes cultural differences

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