Teaching of

Language Arts
ENGL 1
Ebeo, Kryztina Robee G.
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Language arts
the term typically used by
educators to describe the
curriculum area that
includes four modes of
language: listening,
speaking, reading, and
writing.
Language arts teaching

 constitutes a particularly important

area in teacher education, since
listening, speaking, reading, and
writing permeate the curriculum
 they are essential to learning and to
the demonstration of learning in every
content area.
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Teachers are charged with guiding students toward

proficiency in these four language modes, which
can be compared and contrasted in several ways.
 Listening and speaking involve
oral language and are often
referred to as primary modes
since they are acquired naturally
in home and community
environments before children
come to school.
 Reading and writing, the written
language modes, are acquired
differently.
A different way of grouping the
language modes is according to the
processing involved in their use.
 Speaking and writing require
constructing messages and
conveying them to others
through language. Thus they
are "expressive" modes.
 Listeningand reading, on the
other hand, are more "receptive"
modes; they involve constructing
meaning from messages that
come from others' language.
(For those who are deaf, visual
and spatial language modes–
watching and signing–replace
oral language modes.)
 Whatever we label them, all modes
involve communication and
construction of meaning.
 In effective language arts teaching,
several modes are usually used in
each activity or set of related
activities.
Models of Language
Instruction
Three models of
language instruction
 Heritage model
 Competencies model

 Process model
Discover!

 Read more on the three models of

language instruction on the article
entitled “Teaching of Language Arts”
posted by the instructor on Schoology.