LINGUISTIC APPROACH

IN LITERACY
WHAT IS LINGUISTIC
APPROACH?
LINGUISTIC APPROACH -A teaching method which
assume children in the class who participate have a strong
grasp of their mother tongue (oral language) which is then
used as an associative learning tool for words and spelling
patterns.

LINGUISTIC APPROACH: "Most teaching is described as

taking a linguistic approach where the lesson is taught in
the mother tongue." Linguistics is the scientific study of
language. There are broadly three aspects to the study,
which include language form, language meaning, and
language in context.
The earliest known activities in the description of
language have been attributed to Pāṇini around
500 BCE, with his analysis of Sanskrit in
Ashtadhyayi. Language can be understood as
interplay of sound and meaning. The discipline that
studies linguistic sound is termed as phonetics,
which is concerned with the actual properties of
speech sounds and non-speech sounds, and how
they are produced and perceived.
Linguistic includes phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics,
theoritical linguistic, historical linguistic and
computational linguistic.

Phonetics- is concerned with the actual properties

of speech sounds and non speech sound and how
they are the produced and perceived.

Phonology- is the study of the phonemes which

are the speech sound of an individual language.
Morphology- the formation and composition of
words.

Syntax- the formation and composition of phrases

and sentences from these words.

Semantics- how meaning is inferred from words

and concepts.

Pragmatics- how meaning is inferred from

context.
THE THREE DIMENSION OF LINGUISTIC

SOUND STRUCTURE MEANING

PHONETICS MORPHOLOGY SEMANTICS

PHONOLOGY SYNTAX PRAGMATICS

Theoritical Linguistics-

Historical Linguistics-

Sociolinguistics-
Psycholinguistics-

Applied Linguistics-

Computational Linguistics-
METHODOLOGY:
Linguistics is primarily descriptive. Linguists
describe and explain features of language without
making subjective judgments on whether a
particular feature or usage is "good" or "bad".This
is analogous to practice in other sciences: a
zoologist studies the animal kingdom without
making subjective judgments on whether a
particular animal is more evolved or less evolved
than another.
Prescription, on the other hand, is an attempt to promote
particular linguistic usages over others, often favouring a
particular dialect or "acrolect". This may have the aim of
establishing a linguistic standard, which can aid communication
over large geographical areas. It may also, however, be an
attempt by speakers of one language or dialect to exert
influence over speakers of other languages or dialects (see
Linguistic imperialism). An extreme version of prescriptivism can
be found among censors, who attempt to eradicate words and
structures that they consider to be destructive to society.
Prescription, however, is practiced in the teaching of language,
where certain fundamental grammatical rules and lexical terms
need to be introduced to a second- language speaker who is
attempting to acquire the language.
The Popular Linguistic Series
1. The Merrill Linguistic readers
2. The Lippincott Basic readers
3. The S.R.A. Linguistic readers
4. The Miami Linguistic readers
5. The Harper and Row Linguistic
readers
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