ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 26
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 26 | November 3, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036] 21st Century Academic Forum at Harvard, March 8-10, 2015 ‘Language Acquisition’ by Reena Mittal Conference: Confluence VI, January…
‘Language Acquisition’ by Reena Mittal
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 26 | November 3, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
This article is submitted by Reena Mittal.
Language acquisition is a procedure or rather a process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to create and use words for the purpose of communication. This type of language may be vocalized as with speech or manual as in sign. Language acquistion is how you gain the ability to understand, create and use language to communicate with others. Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language, as well as to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition is one of the quintessential human traits, because nonhumans do not communicate by using language. Language acquisition is instrumental when going for second language. Actually first language Acquisition is a natural process which comes with the birth of the child.
Article: ‘Teaching Noun to ESL Learners by Task Based Teaching’ by Krati Sharma
[ELTWeekly Volume 6, Issue 26 | November 3, 2014 | ISSN 0975-3036]
This article is submitted by Dr. Krati Sharma, Asst.,Prof. , Dept.of English, JECRC UDML College of Engg. & Tech., Jaipur (Rajasthan).
Abstract
Teaching English to ESL learner is always a challenge. Teaching a grammar item needs much learning, training, understanding and above all an innovative pedagogy. In the present paper an attempt has been made to teach Noun (naming words) to ESL learners with the pedagogy of task based teaching. For non-native English speakers understanding of this item is very important and crucial as it comes first in the ladder of parts of speech. The emphasis here is to make learners usage centric. The problem is they would know the usage and discourse of this grammar item. The pedagogy of teaching is divided into stages. Each stage has a correlation with the other stage. In the final stage the learner will not only identity the noun but it become a part of its lexical discourse.
Keywords: ESL Learners, Task based teaching, Label, Discourse
Teaching is an implicit exercise. In the present paper discusses a teaching pedagogy of Noun. Noun is a grammar item. It is one of the basic that has been assumed by the facilitator that ESL learner should be friendly with.
The pedagogy has been divided into stages. (more…)