THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHING
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CAMBODIAN MEKONG
UNIVERSITY
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Lecturer Ms. Juanita Team Presentation: Hin Bunmy, But Meankusal
EN401APPLIED LINGUISTICS
The Different Roles of Second Language in People’s LivesA
Language and Groups of SpeakersB
The Goals of Language TeachingC
OUTLINE
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
Bilingualism by choice
Second language for religious use
Official languages and L2 learning
Multilingualism and L2 learning
Internationalism and second languages
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
1 Bilingualism by choice
Some people speak two languages because their parents decided to bring them up bilingually in the home. This bilingualism is not forced on the parents by society or by the educational system, but is their free choice.
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
2 Second language for religious use
Some people use a second language because of their religion. La tin functioned as a religious language of the catholic church.
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
3 Official languages and L2 learning
There are around 32 countries recognize more than one language for official purposes. But the fact that a country has several official languages does not mean that any individual person speaks more than one; the communities may be entirely separate.
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
4 Multilingualism and L2 learning
The past few decades seem to have accelerated movement of people from one country to another, as refugee, immigrants, and migrants looking for work; this has created a vast new multilingualism.
THE DIFFERENT ROLES OF SECOND LANGUAGE IN PEOPLE’S LIVESA
5 Internationalism and second languages
For many students, the second language has no real role within their own society; English is not leant in China because of its usefulness inside China.
Instead, the second language is taught in the educational system because of he benefits it brings from outside.
LANGUAGE AND GROUPS OF SPEAKERSB
Groups of language use
1. People speaking their native language
2. People speaking a second language with a majority community
3. People historically from a particular community reacquiring its language as L2
LANGUAGE AND GROUPS OF SPEAKERSB
Groups of language use
4. People speaking an L2 either as short-term visitors to another country or to short-term visitors to their country
5. People using an L2 with spouses, siblings or friends
LANGUAGE AND GROUPS OF SPEAKERSB
Groups of language use
6. People using an L2 internationally for specific functions
7. Students and teachers acquiring or conveying an education through an L2
8. Pupils and teachers learning or teaching L2 in school
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
1. Central goals of teaching
2. International goals of teaching
3. Individual goals of language teaching
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
1 Central goals of teaching
Assimilationists language teaching
Transitional language teaching
Language maintenance and bilingual language
teaching
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
1.1 Assimilationist language teaching
Assimilationists language teaching
Teaching that expects people to give up their native language and to become speakers of the majority central language of the country.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
1.2 Transitional language teaching
Transitional language teachingTeaching that allow people to function in a central language, without necessarily losing or devaluing the first language.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
1.3Language maintenance and bilingual language teaching
Language maintenance and bilingual language teachingTeaching to maintain or extend the minority local language within its own group.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
2 International goals of teaching
Careers that require a second language
Higher education
Access to research and information
Travel
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
2.1 Careers that require a second language
There are many careers in which knowledge of other language is important. An important of language teaching is indeed to train people for the international business world.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
2.2 Higher education
Higher education through other language may either be in a country that uses it or sites in particular countries where it is not used.
The importance for the student is not the second language itself, but the knowledge and qualifications that are gained through the second language,
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2.3 Access to research and information
School syllabus encourages student to read an understand simple factual text for main idea and supporting details.
To keep up to date or to be well informed, it may be necessary to use English to support various careers that are not primarily based on language.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
2.4 Travel
The motivation behind many students’ L2 learning is to travel abroad.
The goal of travel is included under international goal as it involves contact with other countries.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
3 Individual goals of language teaching
Understanding foreign cultures Understanding language itself Cognitive training General educational values Learning L2 as an academic subject L2 learning as social change
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
3.1 Understanding foreign cultures
Syllabus’ aims at instilling a broader perspective and an understanding of different cultures, fostering attitudes of respect for such ideas, and the ability to live with people of different cultures.
Regardless of the actual language that is being learnt, it is often held to be beneficial for the students to understand a foreign culture for its own sake.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
3.2 Understanding language itself
An educated person should know something of how language itself works as part of the human mind and of society.
THE GOALS OF LANGUAGE TEACHINGC
3.3 Cognitive training
The logical and reasoning powers of the mind were enhanced through a second language. This is supported by research which shows that children who speak two languages are more flexible at problem solving, and are better able to distinguish form from meaning.
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3.4 General educational values
Just as sport is held to train children how in a team and to promote leadership qualities, so L2 teaching can inculcate moral values.
A general value that is often cited is the insight that L2 learning provides into the L1 and its culture.
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3.5 Learning L2 as an academic subject
Language can also be learnt simply as anther subject on the curriculum, another examination to be passed.
The very learning of a second language can be an important mark of education, another form of elite bilingualism.
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3.6 L2 learning as social change
The goals seen so far in a sense accept the world as it is rather than trying to change it; the student as an individual is expected to conform to their society. But education and L2 teaching can also be seen as a vehicle of social change.
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