Teaching English on

Elementary Grades
Dr. Allan S. Bautista
*CONSTITUTION OF 1973
*BILINGUAL POLICY OF EDUCATION IN DEPARTMENT ORDER NO. 25, SERIES
1974
*INTERRELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE LANGUAGE ARTS – LISTENING,
SPEAKING, READING AND WRITING
RECEPTIVE – LISTENING AND READING
EXPRESSIVE – SPEAKING AND WRITING
*THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS

 DeStefano (1978) gives seven universal functions of language originally identified by

Halliday (1975):
1. Instrumental language
2. Regulatory language
3. Interactional language
4. Personal language
5. Imaginative language
6. Heuristic language
7. Informative language
Definition of Language

Linguists define language as a

system of arbitrary vocal symbols
through which members of a
group communicate
Nature of Language

 Language is systematic.
 Language is arbitrary.
 Language is vocal.
 Language is symbolic.
 The purpose of language is group communication.
Four Phases of the Teaching and Learning
of English as a Second Language
Phase I – Establishing Meaning
Phase II – Practice
• Audio-Lingual Drill Types (audio-lingual method)
1. Minimal pair drill
2. Substitution drill
3. Multiple slot substitution drill
4. Moving slot substitution
5. Transformation
6. Integration
7. Expansion
Four Basic Question Types

a.Yes-No
b.Choice
c.Interrogation word
d.Tag
Components of Phase II

Repetition
Recombination
Selection
Three major areas of Selection

Open-ended Questioning
Description
Games
Phase III – Purposeful Student Communication

a.Role playing
b.Gaming simulation
c.Problem solving
d.Hypothetical recombination
e.Directed discourse
Phase IV – Review, Recombination or
Reteaching

Establishing a meaning
Practicing
Purposeful combination
------RETEACHING or start from
phase 1 to phase 3
THANK YOU!