B.Ed. (Full Time) Language Across Curriculum Syllabus - Mumbai University

Objectives

• To understand the meaning and functions of language.-
• To develop appreciation for the significance of language across curriculum
• To develop understanding of language diversity in the Indian context
• To understand the different theories of language acquisition and language deficit
• To understand the impact of oral language and questioning on student learning
• To understand various genre of texts available in different content areas.
• To develop competencies in fostering reading and writing skills among school children
• To develop appreciation for the critical role of the teacher in transacting language across curriculum

Module 1: Understanding Language and Language Diversity 2 credits

Unit 1: Language and its Function

• a) Concept of language
• b) Characteristics of Language
• c) Functions of Language

Unit 2: Multilingualism and its Implications in the Indian Classroom/Context

• a) Multilingualism in the Indian Context
• b) Developing socio-linguistics awareness in the Indian classroom
• c) Critiquing state policies on language and education

Unit 3: Language Acquisition Theory

• a) Environmental Skinners Theory Language Acquisition
• b) Biological – Chomsky’s Theory on Language Acquisition
• c) The Deficit Theory

Module 2: Transacting Language Across Disciplines/curriculum 2 credits

Unit 4: The Nature of Classroom Discourse, Oral Language in the Classroom

• a) Class room discourse, nature and its types
• b) Importance of oral language in the classroom
• c) Engaging learners in language learning – Importance of Questioning and types of questioning, Discussion based learning

Unit 5: Reading and Writing across Content Areas

• a) Identifying nature of texts and language structures – Expository vs Narrative, Transactional vs Reflective, Language schema, text structures.
• b) Techniques to enhance reading comprehension ( Scanning, Skimming, Columnar Reading and Key word Reading)
• c) To develop different types of writing skills.

Unit 6: Language across Curriculum

• a) Language for specific purpose: Education & Training, Research
• b) Relationship to content-based instruction
• • Language and Mathematics
• • Language and History:
• • Language and Science
• • Language and Geography
• c) Language and Medium of instruction

Module 3: Internal Assessment 2 credits

• Any two of the following tasks:
• a) Rewrite a unit from a prescribed text book in the form of a dialogue appropriate for a multilingual class in the target language.
• b) Construct a glossary of content words in different subjects.
• c) Visit a school or NGO that caters to the economically and socially disadvantaged children and write a 1000 words description of the teacher’s challenges to teach language to the class and your reflections on the same.
• d) Prepare a lesson plan in a school of your choice incorporating the different types of questions.
• e) Conduct an interview of minimum three teachers in school to understand how they promote oral language in their classes and submit a short report.
• f) Write a lesson plan using any two strategies of reading comprehension.
• g) Take a story/poem and rewrite in the other form.

References

• Agnihotri,R.K.(1995). Multilingualism as a classroom resource. In K.Heugh A. Segruhn, & P.Pluddemann (Eds) Multilingual education for South Africa. Heinemann Educational books.
• Alexander. (2005). Towards Dialogic Teaching:rethinking classroom talk. UK:Dialogues UK
• Allwright, D.& ABailey, K.M. (1991). Focus on the language classroom. Cambridge: Cambridge
• Behrens, L, & Rosen, L.J. (1997). Writing and reading across curriculum. U.S: Longman.
• Christie,F.(2005) Classroom discourse analysis: a functional perspective.
• Kecht, M. & Karthrina. (2000). Languages across the curriculum: Interdisciplinary structures and International education. Columbus: National East Asian Language Resource centre.
• Lall. R. (2016). Language Across the Curriculum. Vinay Rakheja, Pub. Meerut.
• Ranjana Pandey. (2016). Language Across The Curriculum. Bookman, publishers. New Delhi.
• Santhose Areekkuzhiyil. (2016). Language across the Curriculum. Neelkamal, pub. Hyderabad.
• Wallace. (1998). Study skills in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.