English Across the Curriculum (EAC) Strategy Grades R-12 EAC Strategy in relation to other language strategies

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English Across the Curriculum (EAC) Strategy
Grades R-12EAC Strategy in relation to other
language strategies

• Orientation
• 2014

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Presentation Outline

• EAC Strategy in relation to other language
  strategies
• One of the strategies
• The important role of English in learning
• Every teacher is a language teacher
• Complementary
• Aspects in EAC applicable to all language
  strategies
• EAC and IIAL
• EAC and Home languages

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EAC IN RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGE STRATEGIES

• EAC Strategy as one of the language strategies
• It is an intervention strategy.
• It is a strategy developed to assist learners who
  face barriers to learning as they offer content
  subjects through the medium of English that is
  not their own.
• It is based on the premise that
• Every teacher is a language teacher and
• The basic language skills such as listening and
  speaking, reading and viewing, writing and
  presenting that are taught in language classrooms
  should also be taught in content subjects
• LoLT can be changed from being a barrier to a
  carrier of knowledge through the EAC Strategy

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EAC IN RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGE STRATEGIES

• Important role of language in learning
• English FAL is one of the crucial instruments in
  learning
• The four language skills are central to learning
  and teaching in content subjects
• If a learner is not appropriately skilled in
  English i.e. his/her language of learning and
  teaching, it could then be experienced as one of
  the barriers in the process of learning.
• Language
• - a tool for conceptualizing content and
  knowledge,
• and
• - expressing oneself accordingly in a
  rational, academic style, based on
  subject-specific conventions and registers.
• One needs to understand the language before one
  can decode the science in the knowledge presented
  
• Specialised language, technical vocabulary, text
  types and illustrations need to be unlocked for
  acquisition to be enhanced.

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EAC IN RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGE STRATEGIES

• Every teacher is a language teacher!!
• Why
• Content subjects are taught in English
• English is the language of assessment
• therefore, harmony between LoLT and language of
  assessment equals enhanced performance
• Asking a teacher to become a reading teacher is
  distinctly different from asking a teacher to
  help learners master texts within the teachers
  own subject. In fact, content subject teachers
  are best qualified to help their learners master
  texts in each subject. They should not be
  expected to teach basic reading skills, but they
  can help learners develop critical strategies and
  skills for reading texts in each subject.
• Implications for the content subject teacher
• Engages learners in English as LoLT - the
  language in which learners are being assessed
• Important for all subject teachers is to
  understand how language is used in their subjects
  in order to mediate knowledge.

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EAC IN RELATION TO OTHER LANGUAGE STRATEGIES

• EAC Strategy complements all language strategies
• Aspects in EAC applicable to all strategies
• Improvement of the teaching of English as subject
  on English First Additional Language level
• Improvement of the teaching of English as LoLT -
  not only by the English/language teacher, but by
  all teachers while disseminating knowledge.
• Incremental Introduction of African Languages
  (IIAL)
• Strategy to strengthen the teaching and learning
  of Home Language
• The language skills learnt from home languages
  are also employed to support the teaching and
  learning of English FAL and in content subjects

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LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING AND WRITING ACROSS
THE CURRICULUMListen, Speak, Read, Write,
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