Roll No -
19
Year -
2014-2016
Paper name
– A English language teaching
Study – M.A
SEM - 3
Topic – Language awareness
Guided
by – parth sir
Submitted
to – Department of English
University
– Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
Introduction
Awareness of any language is very
important part to talk or teach. Simply Vocabulary and grammar is a most
important to learn any language and to learn any language meaning of word is a
part of language learning. First language is any person learn is mother tongue
and other language is the person communicate with person.
What is language
awareness?
‘‘Language awareness can be defined
as explicit Knowledge about language and conscious persecution and sensitivity
in language learning, teaching and language use’’
What is English language?
‘‘English is the primary language
of several countries and a second language in a number of multilingual
countries including India’’
What is First language?
‘‘A first language also native
language, mother tongue, arterial language, or L1 is the language or are the
language a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that
a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic
identity.”
What is Second language?
‘‘A person’s second language or L2
is a language that is not the native language of the speaker, but that is used
in the locale of that person”.
Different
between First language and second language
First language
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Second language
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First
language is an English language.
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Second
language is a foreign language.
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L1
is a few exception and they will be full successful.
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L2 learner
success is not grated.
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L1
is an inevitable and all people are few exception.
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L2
is not inevitable because fossilized or ungrammatical items.
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This
language learns have many changes and practice with native speakers.
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Languages
have not opportunity to practice with native speakers.
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L1
is a new learner and native proficiency.
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L2
is a old learner and they access the universal grammar and native speaker
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Language Awareness, 1990, 1. In Van Lier 1996, I refer
to the 1930 in the Netherland, nothing distinctions made at the time between “Language understanding”, “Language feeling”, and “Language insight”. In India or in other countries
where English in the second language [L2] is learn only in study. The basis of
to learner English language, grammar, vocabulary, tense, US is a country where
English is first language education of college student, has been conducted the
study of texts examining language from a variety of perspectives, including
uses. Language awareness movement which started in the US in the, 1970s, led by
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman. Current interest in language stems largely from Three
sources.
· A
Paractical
· Psycholinguistic
· A
critical
Important
of language awareness
Founding father of LA, who searched hard for ways to bridge
the gap between mother tongue and foreign language education. Related articles
language awareness important.
Awareness of
language is very important to communicate, without communication there is no
life. All languages are different, example states; countries all have their own
languages to communicate but each country have their own national language. Person
must have to aware of their countries national language. National language is
use to communicate with all states person of their country.
In one
country’s people wants to communicate with another countries people the
language is use the international language is Britisher’s language. English
language is international language. In
India English is the subject of study. For learn English there is a special
courses.
The language awareness movement in UK
1980s in
the UK followed a period of intense debate about the role of language in
education. In 1982 the NATIONAL
COUNCIL ON LANGU AGE IN EDUCATION [NCLE] setup a language awareness
working party, which formulated the definition mentioned in the introduction. A
number of publications have established language awareness as an active area in
education linguistic. Some of these publications are discussed in the next
section, but it is worth mentioning the pioneering work of Eric Hawkins [1987a,
1987a]. Hawkins also produced a series a booklet for secondary school students.
Another major initiative was the LANGUAGE
IN THE NATIONAL CURRICULAM [LINC] project directed by Professor Ronald
carter, which produced materials for teacher education and was commissioned by
the British government, not sufficiently addressing basic grammar and
correctness.
English as a second language
A person
who grew up with a particular language as their mother tongue. English as a
foreign language all refers to the use or study of English by speakers with
different native language. Generally English language learners are refuges,
immigrants or their children. They must learn English as a second language.
They could have been taught English in school. Those whose native language are
drastically different from English may find it especially difficult to learn
the sounds and grammar of English, while others whose native are more similar may have less trouble. But
these students also face difficulties unrelated to learning the language
itself. ELL students face additional barriers to pursing higher education. ELL
students who arrive in the United States relatively late may find it difficult
to meet this requirement because they must spent a longer time in ESL high
school.
Discussion
As we Know English
is a second language means international language. To learn this language
students have to join classic or some only learn in school. To learn English
language vocabulary, tense, grammar is a most. Tense is the most difficult to
learn or understand for student. If anybody use to learn English vocabulary is
very important. Collective of vocabulary is in our mind help to understory and
the language or meaning or the sentence. Language is not easy to learn
practical Knowledge is most important. When the people using to communicate
practically and the make mistake to speak and they solve that mistake its make
perfect to learn English. Whom have their first language is English for them to
learn English is not big issue but for Indian it is a big bid issue. In some
countries hasn’t any proper guidance to learn this language. In some any aria
there is no teacher to give proper guidance so how student learn English or
second language.
Critical
perspective on language and Discourse
What is language?
“The method of human communication either spoken or written,
consisting of the use of words in a structure and conventional way.”
What is
Discourse?
“The system of thoughts composed of ideas, attitude, and
courses of action, beliefs and practice they systematically construct the
subject and the words of which they speak.”
The purpose
of critical language awareness is to present the view that language use
is part of a wider social struggles and that language education
has the opportunity to raise learners’ awareness of this [1997:220] Garrett
and James report a number of classroom based studies illustrating
diverse aspect of language awareness. They discuss the research agenda five
interdependent domains;
· Effective
· Social
· Power
· Cognitive
· Performance
How do we build awareness in the SL CLASSROOM?
On the other
hand, classroom based studies such as Brooks [1997] and Doughty and Varela
[1998] suggest that learners in their collaborative work, teacher in subject
matter, successfully language [1996-1997].
Student can
learn concept in the SL though an examination of their own language’s structure
and use similarities or different them. EX- Word can be compared student ‘see’ and ‘hear’ the different. Another aspect of building language
awareness involves integrating learned in other classes to SL learning and
classroom applying it to other courses.
In critical
language awareness and discourse analysis, as in other areas of language
awareness, there is much theoretical and some practical work. Janks says, “so far what we have are largely
descriptive accounts, journal studies, interviews”. In linguistic, critical
language awareness often referred to as CLA, refers to an understanding of social,
political and ideological aspect of language, linguistic
variation and discourse. Who do not use “appropriate language?”
Next is cognitive research one can point to the area of metacognitive
strategies and autonomy, does not specifically address the issue of language.
The interested teacher or teacher education can use published examples as ideas
for the development of specific classes and contexts. Series of booklets by Hawkins,
Janks both are contain ideas, activity and different
between a ‘straight’ and a ‘critical’ context and form is very
important in language awareness. Main goal of language teacher is to provide
student with the tools to be effective communicators in the teaching language.
Language awareness operates on three
distinctive levels:
The
Cognitive Level,
Referring to awareness of language pattern.
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The
affective Level,
With regarded to forming attitudes.
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The
Social Level,
Which improvement
of learner effectiveness, rising, facilitates language.
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Awareness activities to initiate the process of awareness raising among
trainee teachers and serving teachers. In the activities there are the four
elements.
· Data
sources
· Tasks
· Processes
· Modes
Discourse study of
the ways in which language is used in text and context. Studies
of language indecently of the tools used discourse are linguistic tools dox
such as modality transitivity and nominlisation. Other researches
have also made use of compos linguistics in their work, and ‘Scientific’ basis to discourse study.
It also part of one type of communicative competence. It is generally the
ability to understand and express oneself in a given language. Discourse can be
defined three points.
Conclusion
This chapter
is variety of approaches and opinions within language awareness are strength
rather than a weakness, different options, methods and directions. New or more “accurate” words to describe new
discoveries, understandings, or a “natural”
product of common sense usage or progress.