Noticing: language awareness done by: Rakhimova G

NOTICING: LANGUAGE AWARENESS

Done by: Rakhimova G.

Noticing

Noticing is regarded as an important part of the process of learning new language, especially in acquisition-driven accounts of language learning, when learners at some point in their acquisition, notice their errors in production. Noticing will only occur when the learner is ready to take on the new language.

LANGUAGE LEARNING

• Becoming aware of the nuances and meanings of a language is part of language learning
• By increasing students’ language awareness the student are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language

Interest in current approach

• Learner independence, learner autonomy, learning strategies, self-directed learning, self-access, individualization

Explicit learner-centered approach

• Explicit learner-centered approach
• Cognitive sciences
• Studies in individual differences
• “Good language learner” research
• Humanistic approach
• “Study skills” tradition
• Social changes and changes in labor market

Variety definitions

• Language awareness – sometimes referred to as the language of learning – refers to how we use words in our learning materials. We research language carefully, so that our resources are as accessible as possible.

Language awareness

• Explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use.
• Good knowledge about language, a conscious understanding of how language work, of how people learn them and use them

Language awareness

• ‘A person’s sensitivity to and conscious awareness of the nature of language and its role in human life’ (Donmall)
• ‘An understanding of the human faculty of language and its role in thinking, learning and social life’

Language awareness in classroom

• Organizational structure
• Grammatical structure
• Style and tone
• Word choice
• Reading /Pronounce Strategies

Awareness-raising activities

• Explicit focus on the rules of the system
• Help learners uncover gaps in their knowledge

How can students’ language awareness be increased?

• Learn concept in SL through an Examination of their own language’s structure
• Word etymology can also be used to see patterns in word formation and related meanings

Continue

• Many Activities that can done to help students in increasing their own language awareness

E.g: Synonym and expression

• Open discussion
• Language variation or Dialect

Conclusion

• Language awareness is part of what the teachers choose to teach, there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar; reproducing them in either written or oral form.