UDP Language Syllabus
Understanding Discipline and Pedagogy: Languages
Objectives
Student-Teacher will be able to:
1. Understand the meaning of language and its components.
2. Understand the language as a medium of instruction respective English.
3. Understand the Language and Literacy in the Context of School and language acquisition.
4. Understand the Language as a process with respect to classroom context.
5. Differentiate the Curriculum, Syllabus and Text book.
Unit 1: General Introduction on Language, Policies and Politics
1.1 Concept of Language, Various components of language; Functions of language;
1.2 How different are different languages? Critical analysis of the following terms: Dialect, Standard and Non-standard language, classical; Characterizing mother tongue, first language, and second language, bilingual and multi-lingual.
1.3 Power, identity, and politics of language; Language as a medium of instruction and debates about English as a medium of instruction; the recommendations of NCF-2005 on language education
Unit 2: Language and Literacy in the Context of School
2.1 Language environment of school and the varied nature of Indian classrooms;
2.2 Language Learner’s profile: language environment at home;
2.3 Characterizing bilingualism and multilingualism; Notions about interference or bridge;
2.4 School’s Expectations: Views relating to child’s home language and literacy practices.
Unit 3: Language Processes and the Classroom Context
3.1 Oral language in the classrooms; Participation in the classroom;
3.2 Facilitating language interaction and independence.
3.3 Creating secure classroom environment for language use; Space for “risk taking”; Reading: Engaging with books of different Types; Comprehension of stories and non-fiction (content area texts); Response to literature: Aesthetic and emotive aspect of reading;
3.4 Writing as a composing process: Problem solving, developing a sense of audience, purpose, and understanding the process of writing.
Unit 4: Transactional Strategies.
4.1. Lesson planning: - Concept and construction
4.2. Constructivism- Meaning, Definition, Characteristics, Nature and Importance
4.3. Secondary Constructivist approach to teach language in Secondary and Higher Levels.
4.4. 5E based Model Lesson - Steps -Engage, Explore, Explain, and Elaborate & Evaluation.
4.5. Unit plan & Unit test – concept construction & administration.
4.6. Resource Unit.
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