The Nature and Structure of Langauge
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This document discusses the nature and structure of language as well as the purpose of language teaching in secondary schools. It defines what constitutes a language and identifies the building blocks of language from phonemes to sentences. It also outlines some key properties of human language including that it is creative, structured, meaningful, and referential. The secondary English curriculum aims to develop students' communicative, cognitive, and academic competencies through a communicative, interactive, and collaborative approach to prepare them for global trends.
The Nature and Structure of Langauge
- 1. Language Curriculum for Secondary Schools NATURE AND STRUCTURE Jovy D. Elimanao – Mihm, MAEd OF LANGUAGE
- 2. Nature and Structure of Language Criteria of the system of communication in order to be considered a language:
- 3. A language uses symbols
- 4. A language is meaningful and therefore can be understood by other users of that language
- 5. A language is generative
- 6. A language has rules that govern how symbols can be arranged.
- 7. Trivia! Did you know that “set” is the word with the most number of meanings? Noun: 58 Verb: 126 Adjective: 10
- 8. The Building Blocks of Language
- 9. PHONEMES the smallest distinguishable units in a language.
- 10. MORPHEMES the smallest meaningful units in a language.
- 11. PHRASES sequence of two or more words arranged in a grammatical construction
- 12. SENTENCES basic unit of language which expresses a complete thought by following the grammatical rules of syntax.
- 13. SYNTAX is a system of rules that governs how words can be meaningfully arranged to form phrases and sentences.
- 16. creative and dynamic new words like “tapsilog”, “pogi”, accepts the influences from other languages
- 17. Structured There are grammatical rules to follow.
- 18. Meaningful It can be understood by other users of the language.
- 19. Referential extra-linguistic, situational meaning (ex. morning star)
- 20. Interpersonal Description has to be understood by my listeners.
- 21. Trivia! Some reasons for the Growth and decline of Language: Changing societal needs Erosion of old customs Call for elegance
- 22. The Purpose of Language Teaching
- 24. cognitive
- 26. Course Descriptions of the Language Classes for Philippine High Schools
- 27. What is the secondary English subject all about?
- 28. The secondary English curriculum for 2002 seeks to develop citizenship and to address the communication needs (i.e. interpersonal, informative, and aesthetic) of Filipino students for English, which is emerging as the international lingua franca.
- 29. In line with developments in applied linguistics and pedagogy, and in consonance with the government thrusts and globalization ,this emerging English curriculum adopts a communicative, interactive, collaborative approach to learning …
- 30. … as well as reflection and introspection with the aim in view of developing autonomous language learners who are aware of and are able to cope with global trends.
- 31. …Central to the framework of this curriculum is the need for language learning that is contextualized, interactive, and integrated.