Hi Class,
1. Please comment on the Stages of Grammatical Development and how such stages can be helpful to you as a teacher.
2. Which of the Approaches to Bilingual Education do you think is helpful and effective in the Filipino setting. Explain.
Doc Raqui
1. Please comment on the Stages of Grammatical Development and how such stages can be helpful to you as a teacher.
2. Which of the Approaches to Bilingual Education do you think is helpful and effective in the Filipino setting. Explain.
Doc Raqui
The Stages of Grammatical Development encompasses the progression of the child's ability to interact with the environment by using sounds and words. The child---indisputably a social being---attempts to communicate with the use of sounds. As early as infancy, the child would create the primary sound that he or she can create---crying.
ReplyDeleteCrying communicates a need---“I want to drink, I want to eat, I want to sleep.” We may not understand what the cooing or babbling means, but it’s a sign that child is trying to connect. Otherwise, he or she cannot express his/her thirst, hunger or whatever it is he/she needs. And if the child won’t communicate its needs, how will it get the milk, the food, or the serenity it seeks? How will the child survive?
For the human species to survive, evolution developed infants who, after a year, would convert these sounds into words that would somehow mean something. Single words---or holophrasic speech---are now learned---the cry is converted to “drink” or “milk” or whatever-has-been-taught-by-the-caregiver, a statement attributed to the child’s ability to acquire words through imitation.
As teachers, we may encounter students--- in special education--- who speak in a holophrasic manner---and we must decipher what those single words mean. We can do that by clarification. The child says, “drink”. The teacher says, “You want water?” or “You want milk?” or “You want juice?”. The child says “play.” The teacher says, “you want ball?” or “you want doll?”. It is through the facilitation of communication that we are able to polish off possible frustrations on the part of the child.
When the child is 1 ½ years old, the child advances to telegraphic utterances---two-word “sentences” or questions. This is a stage where the child has more than 300 words to use under his/her belt. The telegraphic utterances builds up to become short sentences from 2 – 2 ½ and complex sentences from 3 -4 years old. . And by age of 4, they advance to adultlike sentence structures----a capability that will be useful as they enter kindergarten by age of 5.
The knowledge of language development is a pre-requisite to understand the ability of learners to communicate. It is significant for teachers to detect signals that imply language development problems among their students---and appropriately intervene to the best of his/her abilities, notwithstanding the fact that the student may need to be referred to a specialist. And since the rule of thumb is that comprehension preceded production (Clark & Clark, 1977), the child’s ability to produce new words will highly depend on the new words---or sentences---introduced by the teacher---the teacher whose goal is to help the child progress in language development and become an entity who communicates with confidence, clarity and connection.
Question number 2.
ReplyDeleteAccordingly, I think that Transitional Bilingual Education is helpful and effective in the Filipino setting. In the transitional approach, students receive their content area instruction in their native language while learning English as a second language.(Anonat, 2009)
The Filipino language---or the language that one has learned first, knows best and uses most---may be an appropriate medium of instruction during the primary years of schooling. Why? It’s easier to understand difficult concepts if explained in a language that is used at home and the community. The learner can easily grasp the ideas since they don’t need to undergo the step of translating the concept from English to Filipino. The concept is simple. If they understand what they hear, they learn.
A beneficial feature of the Transitional Bilingual Education covers learning English as a second language---this is relevant to the Philippine setting---knowing that English proficiency is a core human competency to attract business process outsourcing providers, as stated by TUCP Secretary General Ernesto Herrera.
The glaring---and fortunate---reality is that in 2012, IT-BPO in the Philippines generated more than $13 billion in revenues---that’s P585 billion in revenues coming from the call center industry!
And the employment well that is the BPO industry wouldn’t dry up soon, Philippines being the 3rd in the top 100 global outsourcing destinations in 2013.
Hence, we should really consider English not just as a second language for the sake of having a second language, but a major contributing factor to our country’s economic growth.
But this doesn’t mean that we should erase the Filipino language in our memory, for what benefit are we going to get if we gain the whole world, and lose our Filipino heritage in the process?
1. Children do not learn how to speak properly overnight, it follows a predictable sequence. The process of grammar development is slow and continuous. As children move through the stages of grammar development, they become more and more adept at speaking their language. These stages can be very helpful to me as a teacher because this information will serve as my guide on what approach to take in teaching my students. Like for example, if I will be teaching pre-school I should take in to consideration that my choice of words in teaching them or giving instructions is appropriate for their age. I should use simple words that will meet their level of understanding and avoid using highfaluting words that will confuse them.
ReplyDelete2. In my opinion, maintenance bilingual education is helpful and more appropriate in the Filipino setting because it builds on native language literacy and extends it to a second language as well. Its objective is for the children to become fluent in both native and second language by using both as medium of instruction. It was stated in the revised policy on bilingual education that “Filipino and English shall be used as media of instruction; the use allocated to specific subjects in the curriculum as indicated in DECS, the two languages shall also be taught as subjects in all levels to achieve bilingual competence.” In this approach we will be able to satisfy both our law and the learning needs of the student because learning to speak and write in English in this age of globalization is necessary especially if we would like to be able to compete in the knowledge based world.
1. Children, as we all know have to pass through different stages for their development – may it be on terms of physical, mental or emotional. In connection with this, these children also have to go by the stages of grammatical development to fully enhance their communication skills. However, in order for the child to successfully surpass the stages, this would require time and effort both on the part of the learners and the teachers. Obviously, all children started their communication ability in crying and babbling. We, as the elderly really didn’t understand what does these means, but then, we will just assume that they’re hungry, thirsty, sleepy or there is a need to change their diapers. With this, all of us want to improve the children’s communication skills not only for their development but also for us, to be able to communicate with them clearly. As a teacher, stages of grammatical development would be a great help for me in a sense that these stages would serve as my guide on what and how will I teach them on terms of their grammatical development.
ReplyDelete2. Well for me, it is the Maintenance Bilingual Education that is helpful and effective in the Filipino Setting. As I understand the report, this approach builds and maintains the learner’s native language and expands it to the second language to enable the learners to be proficient in both languages. Yes, we are all aware that our education system would require the learners to be fluent in speaking English since it is considered as the universal language; but still, I believe that we should focus first in developing and maintaining our native language. Choosing to maintain our native language wont hinder the Filipinos to be fluent in English since we all know that Filipinos are fast learners.
Sounds from the children’s environment help a lot.
1. Please comment on the Stages of Grammatical Development and how such stages can be helpful to you as a teacher.
ReplyDeleteThe Stages of Grammatical Development summarize what an individual can learn within his or her age range. The first stage is the sound. This stage happens at an early age since a child cannot fully absorb everything, but instead tries to absorb whatever he or she hears or listens to. This stage moves or develops into other stages as the child grows, from holophrases to telegraphic utterances, from telegraphic utterances to short sentences, from short sentences to complex sentences, and from complex sentences to adult-like structures. Because of the summary of these stages, I, as a teacher, will be able to distinguish what appropriate instruction I may give the learner in studying languages. For example, when a child reaches the stage of short sentences, I would be able to instruct him or her how to make sentences properly by showing and explaining to him or her parts of a sentence or figures of speech. For example, I will explain the use of verbs, basic prepositions, nouns, pronouns, gerunds and so on. Knowing the stages will help me set boundaries or limitations on what I will teach, so that there will be no information overload on the part of the lesson which will make the student confused instead of learning effectively.
2. Which of the Approaches to Bilingual Education do you think is helpful and effective in the Filipino setting? Explain.
In my opinion, all approaches to Bilingual Education are good for Filipinos since throughout our history Filipinos proved to be effective secondary speakers and learners. However, when it comes to choosing an approach to Bilingual education, I prefer the Maintenance Bilingual Education. In Maintenance Bilingual Education, students receive their content area instruction in their native language while learning English as a second language. The only difference it has from other approaches is that it builds on the native language literacy and extends it to a second language. Many Filipinos who are good at speaking English nowadays are becoming limited in the mastery of their native language. They don’t remember some vocabularies like the different species of animals in Filipino. Whereas Koreans know their vocabularies very well, but limited in English at the same time. Koreans can easily overcome this with the use of their electronic dictionary translating the word in English, but in our case if we do not know the English term and do not know it as well in Filipino, it is harder to figure it out. I have this difficulty as well. It maybe subjective, but I think the Maintenance Bilingual Education is helpful and effective in the Filipino setting.
1. As a teacher of elementary students the stages of grammatical development helps me to:
ReplyDelete• Understand the capacity of my students to absorb the lesson.
• Be creative; provide activities which will help them through their development.
• Adjust the lessons that they should learn.
• Be more sociable in a way that I can help them express their thoughts through music
• Teach my students to achieving independence and Improve ability to comprehend.
2. For me, the best approach which is helpful in Filipino setting is the Maintenance Bilingual Education. As far as I understand the report the approach focused to maintain and enhance what we have. The approach helps the learners to:
• Maintains the native language since it is an appropriate channel for continued learning.
• Builds on the native language literacy and extends it to a second language
In which there is no time limit and the pressure is less for the students.
1. For me the grammatical developmental stage refers simple to the stage when a child acquire new words and tries to communicate and socialize using the words that he has learned for the past months. Although the vocabulary is limited but communication effort is already observed. Let as take for an example a child trying to communicate that he has already finished drinking his milk. Since his vocabulary is limited and may have not also fully developed the skill of constructing a correct grammar to communicate, the child may just simply say "wa na" "ala na". This is already a significant development on a child communicating skill since the child has already remarked "wala ng gatas" to the limited verbal tools he has to say what he thinks and feels.
ReplyDeleteFor me I prefer to use the maintenance bi lingual language. With this approach the students will be able to keep his mother tongue despite learning a second language. Please take note that one of the goal of the DepEd is to teach and keep the Filipino Culture. Through maintenance bi lingual language, our school would be able to contribute in maintaining the Filipino language and teach the student of our second language which is English. Another thing is that a student would be able to appreciate both world, appreciate his own culture as a Filipino, which is rich and equal to that of other culture, and be able to communicate universally through the use of English as the second language. Making the student love his own country via keeping his own language and globally competitive by having the ability to communicate in English.
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ReplyDeleteChildren will not learn language in just a snap they have to go thru step by step stages of grammatical progress to completely improve their communication skills and this would entail time and effort both on the part of the students and the teachers. As a teacher, stages of grammatical development would help me in the sense that it will guide me on how I am going to convey my teaching approach that is suited on the level of their development. Also, it will allow me to evidently recognize their competence to learn and adjust to it so that they can advance their capacity to grasp the lessons.
QUESTION NUMBER 2:
I would prefer the continuation of bilingual language. With this, the students will be able to uphold the local language that they have learned while learning the second language that will enhance their communicating capacity as well as enabling them to extend literacy and be proficient in both language.
1. We hear the phrase “great things start from small beginnings.” The Stages of Grammatical Development amazes me on how our development started from simple sounds and words up to a complex system of structures. Our body and mind are programmed to handle each step of our development. It carefully prepares each part which leads to another higher stage. We don’t need to hurry each step but see it as it unfolds into something amazing. As a teacher do not expect an outcome that is too much for the age of your students but respect the stage of development in where they are. We need not to hurry the development of our students because everything has its right time. What we can do is to assist them. The stages serves as a gauge for as teachers on the amount of intervention we can give to our students if they are not in their normal course of development.
ReplyDelete2. In a Filipino setting I think the one which is more helpful and effective is the Maintenance bilingual education. It is the objective of this approach for the children to become fluent in both languages by using both for instruction. I believe Filipinos can adapt to this kind of setting because we are already exposed to both English and our native language. It is not anymore difficult for us to adjust and integrate this approach. I believe that every Filipino must learn the English language and the native language. In this kind of approach we do not disregard our own language but make it at par with English.
1) The Stages of Grammatical Development is learn throughout a person's life, like the quote "Rome was not built in a day" Children don't learn to speak properly in one day. But the grammar development is slowly inherit by the child and is continuously learning. As children move through the stages of the grammar development, the become more adapt to the language they are speaking. As a teacher, the stages of grammatical development will help me by knowing which grammar development will be best to teach my students. Also it will help me to create my lesson plan in a fun way that my students will be able to learn and understand the lesson.
ReplyDelete2) In my opinion, maintenance bilingual education would be helpful and more suitable in a Filipino setting because they will maintain their native language but at the same time learn a second language. With this, a child can both be proficient in their native and second language.
1. As an educator, the stages of grammatical development showcase the different periods in which a child learn language effectively. Categorizing a child into different levels based on their stage of development will ensure that they will learn language effectively through appropriating certain techniques prescribed by their development. Teachers can construct teaching strategies and curriculum that will help the child to learn and apply language.
ReplyDelete2. The Bilingual Education helps us to understand that Filipinos learn different language through first having their native language and then learning another language. They learn by using their native language in which they understand the other language through translating the Filipino language to the foreign language. In the K-12 program, school and curriculum makers realize that Filipinos learn effectively through the usage of the native tongue. They can easily understand the lesson through their native language. For this, a child learn to be bilingual by setting his native language as the foundation of learning another language.
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