This book, Language Across the Curriculum (LAC)provides all the essential components a teacher trainee, practising teacher and researcher needs to equip himself or herself while learning to teach, practising in the classroom and for researching the centrality of language in learning the content subject. The author has done the job of addressing both the theoretical and classroom centrered components in order to make the users of the book understand the concepts in LAC and to implement in the classroom. The chapters are divided in such a way that they move from laying foundations on the concepts and taking forward to addressing the content specific issues and their integrations in each subject.
Features:
• The book delves into the ideas and objectives of how language and learning are intertwined.
• Ways and means of implementing language across the curriculum through thematic approach, under-standing the linguistics features of language use in content subjects.
• With the newer trends and developments in educational theory and practice, this book serves many a purpose to understand the course objectives, content and practices of LAC.
• Ways and means of planning and realising LAC at the school and classroom level.
• This book would be of use for prospective teachers at all levels-primary, secondary and senior secondary level, teacher educators who shape the teachers, practicising teachers and researchers in education
Table of Contents:
1. Language and Learning in Multilingual Contexts
2. Language Across the Curriculum: Ways and Means of Implementation
3. Nature of Classroom Discourse
4. Language Across the Subjects
5. Reading Across the Curriculum
6. Academic Language: Writing Across the Curriculum
7. Language Across the Curriculum: Materials, Resources and Assessment
About the Author
Ramanujam Meganathan is Professor in the Department of English, NCERT, New Delhi.
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