Unit 4 Summary

Teaching English in the Elementary
Grades Through Literature
Name: Hezekiah Marie P. Bangate
Year and Block: BEEd-2A
Date: March 13, 2021
UNIT 4: SUMMARY
Language Curriculum in K-12
 Language- the key to all human activities. It is the basic foundation of all human
activities because it is what we use in communicating.
 Curriculum- is the outline of ideas to be taught to learners to assist them to suffice the
content standards
Together, a Language Curriculum is a curriculum that is based on a language whose contents

are well-outlined to assist the education and enhancement of the language proficiency of the
learners across the subject fields. Its role is to make language a fundamental component of
higher-order thinking skills and a crucial precondition for flourishing content learning thus, its
part is to make the language to be a medium for meaning-making and a filter for evaluating
education results.
6 Language Teaching Principles

1. Spiral Progression- This will enable learners to improve from the basic level to a greater
level of language use.
2. Interaction- activities that let the students be situated in real-life states that will allow
them to communicate with others and make improvements on their socialization skills.
3. Integration- may appear in various types, either implicity or explicitly, such as abilities,
content, subject, topic, and values integration. It also presents varied views and
significant associations by the use of a suitable and non-print resource.
4. Learner-Centeredness- learners will be the center of the teaching-learning process. It
recognizes the unique interests and passions of every learner and makes them the primary
agents of their learning.
5. Contextualization- learning method of linking the curriculum to a distinct setting,
condition, or field of utilization to make the competencies appropriate, essential, and
beneficial to all learners.
6. Construction- meaning-making is the core of language learning and use. After learning
the assignments and exercises, take some time for them to ponder on what they did.
Literacy in the Mother tongue and the second language; bridging among languages
Bilingual education programs first foster literacy in the mother tongue and then in the
second language which uses instruction as a medium, that is proved to be successful in certain
locations around the world. This kind of program has a great impact on the community’s
understanding and support for children to attend school, helping and letting a child identify
oneself, and to develop and utilize fluency in their language in learning the skills of reading and
writing. Before introducing a second language, literacy in the mother tongue must be facilitated
and coherent because ideas can be conveyed thoroughly in one’s language. Reading ability
contributes to fasten the process of learning a second language. Learning to read and write in the
second language must be supplemented right after the literacy in the mother tongue widens
which includes oral language, phonological awareness, book, and print orientation, alphabet
knowledge, handwriting, listening comprehension, attitude toward LLL, phonics, and word
recognition, spelling, fluency, reading comprehension, grammar awareness, composing and
study skills. Mother tongue is a language that children are most familiar with. A language that is
used and spoken at home with their family. It is presented in a new study that a person’s native
language can provide misleading information when learning a second language. This is because
our brain processes auditory words in a second language and can be influenced by a person’s
native language as well as it can foster a different meaning because of cues that signal the
beginning and ending of words from language to language. Second language learners, on the
other hand, can easily pick up because of some cues such as intonation but are harder to master
and are more likely to be influenced by a speaker’s native language. As for the most interesting
findings, due to the cases where languages share similarities but have slight differences, this
makes it harder for second language learners to construct and use the correct speech cues to
identify words. This kind of speech processing system is adaptive. It might take time to
completely override the effects of the native language to adapt to the second language. A bridge
is a moment where teachers are encouraging students to identify the similarities and differences
that includes phonology, morphology, syntax, and grammar pragmatics among languages and
transfer what they learned from one language to the other. Bridging occurs during the bridge
whenever students and teachers
make connections among the languages. It helps students to transfer academic language learned
in one language to the other and engage in contrastive analysis in the similarities and differences
of the languages. Learning a second language opens new opportunities to strengthen their
literacy skills. Being able to use existing skills to understand new languages encourages them to
try new things as well as promotes addition in confidence. There are benefits of learning a
second language, which is, being bilingual is highly valued on the job market, bilingual people
have better memory, it opens cultural and social opportunity, and speaking another language
boost long-term neurological health.
Domains of Literacy and the Competencies to be Develop in each domain
It is believed that all children can and should learn to read within a few years of
schooling. This topic’s ultimate goals are effective communication skills and literacy and the use
of language to convey meaning through reading and writing. The domains of literacy are;
attitude towards literacy, language, and literature which are individual choices and tastes in
reading texts. Positive attitudes and experiences are motivation to learn to read. Oral language is
one’s knowledge and understanding of its uses. Phonological awareness involves rhymes,
syllables, onset, and rimes. Book and print awareness are pieces of knowledge and understanding
to that of the books and of a print of what they are and how they function. Alphabet knowledge is
the ability to recognize, name, and sound out all the letters of the alphabet whether in uppercase
or lower case. Handwriting is the ability to form letters and cursive styles. Phonics and word
recognition is the ability to identify a written word by sight or in spoken language. Spelling is the
ability to convert oral language sound into printed language symbols. Grammar awareness is the
knowledge of language features and sentence structures in written language. Fluency is the
ability to read words and speak with speed and accuracy and proper expression. Composing is
the application of formulated ideas into sentences and are in written language. Vocabulary
development is the knowledge of words and their meaning both in oral and print representations.
Comprehension is vocabulary knowledge where interaction between the reader and the text takes
place. Lastly, study skills, are techniques and strategies that help a person to read or listen and
remember them.

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Teaching English in the Elementary

Grades Through Literature

Name: Hezekiah Marie P. Bangate

Year and Block: BEEd-2A

Date: March 13, 2021

Together, a Language Curriculum is a curriculum that is based on a language whose contents

6 Language Teaching Principles

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