Language Teaching

The primary years are highly language centred years for children. They come to school equipped with certain language skills – those skills that they have picked up from their families and neighbourhood. It is now the Language teacher’s task to build upon these skills and help children use languages effectively for communication and comprehension.

Since most children arrive in school with full-blown linguistic systems, the teaching of languages must have very specific objectives in the school curriculum. One of the major objectives of language teaching is to equip learners with the ability to read and write with understanding and to make them autonomous learners.