LANGUAGE BASED APPROACH in teaching

A Fighter’s Lines

Language-Based Approach

• Carter (1988) : Language-based approach helps students to focus attention on the way as to how the language is used. • Lazar (1993) : Literary texts as resources that cater for language

practice through series of language activities rather than studying literature for the purpose of acquiring facts and information.• A student-centred approach• Utilizing the poem as a tool to learn a language

Teacher’s guidelines of using the lesson plan

• Teacher writes the word “hero” on the whiteboard.• Get the students to be in a group

of five (6 groups)• Instruct them to discuss about the

word written on the whiteboard• Pick students from a random

group to share their ideas.

• Stage: Pre-reading

• Material:1. Whiteboard and marker

Teacher’s guidelines of using the lesson plan

• Teacher plays a video while reciting the poem• Ask them to read the poem aloud• Ask the students to remain seated

in the group• Distribute the task sheet, glue and

an envelope to each group• Instruct the students to match the

word with their meaning on the task sheet

• Stage: While reading

• Materials: • YouTube video• Task sheet • Glue • An envelope containing words in the

poem (refer to appendix 4)

Teacher’s guidelines of using the lesson plan

• Teacher writes an instruction about the activity• Distributes the materials for the

scrapbook• Show a sample of scrapbook • Describe the things that should b

included in the scrapbook i.e. characteristics

• Stage: Post reading

• Materials:• Coloured A4 papers• Magazines• Scissors• Glue• Ribbon

Rationale

• The activity used in the lesson promotes the language used among the students; group discussions• “activities like prediction, cloze, ranking tasks, role play, poetry recital,

forum, debate and discussions can be used to create opportunities for language use in the classroom” (Carter, 1996; Rosli, 1995).• The reading aloud session gives opportunity for teacher to correct any

pronunciation error made by students• The making of scrapbook promotes the students to use the language

to describe their hero, as each students need to use language in describing their hero