Good Ways on How to teach Language in Elementary Grades:

Man uses language to establish good relationship with others, to acquire and share information,
to convince, to persuade, and to communicate in various forms, his thoughts and feelings. Language is
therefore, man’s most potent tool.

Indeed, man’s development in and mastery of language, as exemplified in his proficiency in

listening, speaking, reading, and writing effectively, are his most important accomplishment and
equipment for self-actualization.

What really is LANGUAGE

- Language as a representation of man’s experience is highly individual. Its meaning differs from person
to person. It grows and changes. It is never static. It is a structured system arbitrary sounds and symbols
used in communication. Language is primarily speech. Writing is secondary.

The four modes of communication, namely: listening, speaking, reading and writing compose the areas
of communication arts. Skill in each area depends upon understanding of phoneme-grapheme
correspondence, lexicon, and syntactical structure of the language. The communication arts are
interrelated in developmental sequence.

Listening and speaking have reciprocal relationship because they are essentially phonological
skills.

Reading and Writing on the other hand are commonly based on the graphological structure of language
and are likewise reciprocal as communication skills.

The following are the good ways on how to teach language to Graders:

 The primary task of the teacher is to impart oral patterns.

 Exposure to the language as it is spoken by native speakers who act as informants or models is
desirable
 Sustained experiences in listening and speaking are attended to before reading and writing.
 The teaching of Practical English is somewhat heard, spoken, written and heard in various
situations day to day.
 Instruction must make use of the everyday environment of the students and integrate
frequently used expressions.
 Attention is focused on the smallest formal features of the language. Attention is equally given
to the understanding of the meaning of an utterance.
 The correctness of linguistic forms is very important for mastery and the formation of speech
habits.
 Communication skills mastered must be usable in situations in which students are required to
make suitable responses.
 Optimum learning takes place if language elements and communicative functions are carefully
selected, sequenced, and learned in small dose. Limited tasks are practiced at one time.
 Reading and Writing are not the emphasis of the initial stage of learning a language.
 The introduction to the printed word follows the aural-oral period.
 The content of instruction is the English that is actually used in its various regional and social
dialects as analyzed and described by linguists.
 The patterns of one’s native language interfere to a certain degree with the learning of the
patterns of another language.
 The meaning of an utterance is the product of context.