language across curriculum

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

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 as an Instrument of Thought | B.Ed Notes

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

B.ED, Language and Curriculum Transaction / Dhananjoy Sutradhar

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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Linguistic Interdependence and Educational Development of Bilingual Children

B.ED, Language and Curriculum Transaction / Dhananjoy Sutradhar

Bilingualism can be achieved only on the basis of adequately develop first language. The development of competence in a second language in partially a function of the type of competence already developed in language-1 at the time when intensive exposure to language-2 begins. In the context of bilingual education, the educational outcomes are explained as

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