Language plays a central role in the learning experience of a child. It enables a child to form concepts, explore symbols, analyse a problem, organise information and interact with her environment. 

An understanding of subjects learnt at school depends on a child’s language abilities. It is in listening, speaking, reading and writing in the language used at school that a child can engage with content matters, and acquire proficiency. Teachers and teacher trainers need to develop a critical understanding of the nature and role of language in the context of the child, the curriculum and the subject knowledge. 

Course objectives

This course will introduce you to the theory and practice of a language across curricular perspectives in the teaching of various subjects at the school level. We will guide you to explore language in subject-specific contexts by relating it to the overall objectives of the curriculum. We will also provide you participants with a hands on experience of classroom practices which can be replicated in your specific contexts.

Course Overview

Language: Its nature and scope

The relationship between language and cognition, language and meaning and language and learning.

Language and the child

How do children acquire language? How does the language ability contribute to the cognitive development of the children and their learning needs?

Learning through language

How does language learning at schools take place across all school subjects?

For more information, send an email to <language.​pm@​apu.​edu.​in>