Concepts for Linguistic and Literacy Development of Children and Adolescents Among all of the many components of child development and young adult learning, the mastery and appreciation of spoken and written language is one of the most important. For most teachers and students, spoken and written language is the primary medium through which the daily activities of the classroom are conducted and the study of language arts occurs at all levels of the curriculum. No matter where you find yourself as a teacher, on any given teaching day you might find yourself: ;
Unsure of how to respond to a young child’s creative experiments with ‘foots’ and ‘gooses,’ ‘breaker’ and ‘good,’ and a host of whittle white habits. ; Wondering whether a child’s dialect pronunciations might affect letter recognition and reading skills. ; Helping bilingual students with a linguistic contrast between their first and second language. ; Stymied by an articulate 7 yr. Old who nevertheless can’t seem to keep his eyes focused on the book full of little squiggly lines swimming before his eyes. ; Outclassed by an ambitious 10 yr. D whose detailed knowledge of plot structure and character in the Harry Potter novels makes you seem like a literary dunce. ; Surprised that students who are clearly competent In math concepts and computation are often confused by the written language of the story problems. ; Confronted by frustrated adolescents who want to know why they can’t write In “their own voice,” or the dialect of their peers and their community. ; Discouraged In your attempts to Inspire students who seem less Interested In reading than In visual Edie such as TV, movies and video games. Moved to tears by the raw emotional purity of young creative writers and the sources of their private pain. ; Frustrated by the seemingly contradictory priorities In language arts: “correctness” vs.. “creativity and “process” vs.. “product. ” Linguistics Will Help You As you prepare to become an educator, your course work In linguistics will provide you with a body of knowledge and skills that you can weave together with threads from your literacy, literature and education courses. It will be up to you, as an educator, to create your own tapestry out of the threads given to you.
As you progress through the program, you should begin to notice that the linguistic and language arts curriculum: Can be a content area for you to teach to students. Will prepare you to better assess language and literacy development In students. ; Will prepare you to better direct language and literacy development for students. ; Will prepare you to better understand Issues In language structure and usage, language diversity, bilingualism, engage standards and linguistic creatively.
Concepts for Linguistic and Literacy Development of Children and Adolescents By Franciscan Unsure of how to respond to a young child’s creative experiments with foots’ and language. ; Stymied by an articulate 7 yr. Old who nevertheless can’t seem to keep Surprised that students who are clearly competent in math concepts and Confronted by frustrated adolescents who want to know why they can’t write in “their own voice,” or the dialect of their peers and their community. Discouraged in your attempts to inspire students who seem less interested in reading than in visual the seemingly contradictory priorities in language arts: “correctness” vs.. “creativity’ As you prepare to become an educator, your course work in linguistics will provide through the program, you should begin to notice that the linguistics and language arts curriculum: ; Will prepare you to better assess language and literacy development in students. ; Will prepare you to better understand issues in language structure and usage, language diversity, bilingualism, language standards and linguistic creativity.
