Saturday 21 January 2012

Pedagogy of Language Development


Challenges of teaching language in a diverse classroom; language difficulties, errors and disorders
Diverse classroom: A class room in which a teacher finds the students of different languages, different religions/cast/creed/culture and  different gender.

Language difficulties: Some students may have different pronunciation in English because of their mother-tongue influence.

Errors : If the students have just listened a word from other and they are not aware of the spelling of the word  , so there may be found some variation in their pronunciation of the word.
e.g. the word convince /kuhn-vins /  is  wrongly pronounced as / kuhn-vey-uhns / conveyance. While both the words have different meaning.

Disorder : The students may use the words  in disorder to make a sentence. e.g. 'What you have done? ' is in disorder. The sentence should be What have you done?

Well these kinds of issues are minute but of great importance in a diverse classroom.