Centrality of Language

Dr.K.Kamala Devi,
Asso. Prof. English
Sri Sarada College of Education, Salem
 Language develops mainly through its
purposeful use (domains to be broadened)
• Students assimilate new concepts when they listen talk read and write
about what they are learning. Speaking and writing reflex the thinking
process that is taking place.

• Teachers across disciplines will does be improving students learning

within their own subjects while also supporting the efforts of the
whole School to improve English proficiency.
• Learning in classrooms is primarily accomplished through language.
Teachers lecture, ask questions, orchestrate discussions, and assign
reading and writing tasks.

• Students engage in academic tasks through reading, writing, exploring

the Internet, giving verbal answers to teacher questions, listening to
teacher lectures and student presentations, participating in whole-class
and instructional peer group discussions, memorizing written text and
vocabulary, and so on.
One classroom language practice of interest to educational researchers has
been scaffolding. Scaffolding is the process through which teachers and
students interact with each other by building on each other's immediately
previous statement or utterance.

Through scaffolding, teachers may be able to help students explore and

understand academic issues beyond what they are able to do on their own.
Scaffolding can occur between teachers and students and also among
students.
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 A constituent component of higher order thinking skills and their
necessary pre-condition for successful content learning

• The development psychologists Vygotsky and Bruner claimed that

young children develop higher order thinking skills through cultural
mediation and interpersonal communication with more
knowledgeable adults or peers.

• Development of mental concepts and the appropriation of procedural

knowledge depend on social interaction and the verbal exchange.
 Language is a filter for assessing learning outcomes.

If students do not have an age adequate comment of

subject literacy they have no chance to meet the implicit Expectations
by the teacher as a subject specialist.
Learning languages expands their world view

Each language has its own style, idioms,

cultural references and heritage. Children who are

exposed to these features; the ideas they represent,

the new vocabulary and the grammatical variation,

are equipping themselves with the tools to

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