Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE TEACHING
IN THE FOUNDATION PHASE
FLT3701
Vanessa Carles
Student number: 64948722
Assignment 2
Unique number: 635160
Due date: 25 July 2022
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,Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
Table of Contents
❖ Student’s Declaration Form Page 3
❖ Question 1 Pages 4 to 6
❖ Question 2 Pages 6 to 9
❖ Question 3 Pages 9 to 10
❖ Question 4 Pages 11 to 12
❖ References Page 13
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,Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
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, Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
Question 1
1.1 Explain and discuss why you think language skills develop the child’s
ability to acquire a second language. Refer to the four (4) language skills.
We teach a second language to provide children with important language skills that will
enable them to communicate meaningfully as well as to read and write at primary level.
Language is an interactive communicative process and are divided into four main
categories: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Although the four language skills are
interrelated and often overlap, children generally acquire their second language skills in the
following order:
1) Listening
• Listening is the first skill learners acquire in the Foundation Phase as they are not able to
speak the second language yet.
• There needs to be differentiation between listening as a natural ability and as a learned
skill.
• Listening is a skill that needs to be taught as an effective communication skill which will
allow learners to hear for meaning as well as to speak in an effective manner.
• To facilitate understanding and interpretation, it is crucial to teach learners how to listen
for information.
2) Speaking
• Each learner will experience learning an additional language in a different way.
• Simple language must be used when communicating with the learners.
• Breathing and articulation should be the focus when they are taught how to speak.
• In order to make sense of phonics, learners must be taught to recognise that a word
is made up of a sequence of distinct sounds.
• Just like listening, speaking is also a very acquired skill that needs to be practised
continuously in order for it to improve. The more learners listen to spoken language,
the more they will develop their speaking skills and the better they will
communicate.
• Speaking begins by using simple basic words that are usually associated with pictures
and from there it slowly develops into phrases and sentences.
• Simple strategies like role-play and simple conversations or dialogue must be used to
develop speaking and language skills.
3) Reading/viewing
• Basically, reading means to decode and identify print.
• The text and teaching strategy that the teacher will use, will be determined by the
specific purpose of the reading.
• In-dept approaches and methodologies are used in the home language, but in the
FAL reading is introduced in a much simpler form.
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FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE TEACHING
IN THE FOUNDATION PHASE
FLT3701
Vanessa Carles
Student number: 64948722
Assignment 2
Unique number: 635160
Due date: 25 July 2022
1
,Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
Table of Contents
❖ Student’s Declaration Form Page 3
❖ Question 1 Pages 4 to 6
❖ Question 2 Pages 6 to 9
❖ Question 3 Pages 9 to 10
❖ Question 4 Pages 11 to 12
❖ References Page 13
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,Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
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, Vanessa Carles – Student number: 64948722 FLT3701 – Unique number: 635160
Question 1
1.1 Explain and discuss why you think language skills develop the child’s
ability to acquire a second language. Refer to the four (4) language skills.
We teach a second language to provide children with important language skills that will
enable them to communicate meaningfully as well as to read and write at primary level.
Language is an interactive communicative process and are divided into four main
categories: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Although the four language skills are
interrelated and often overlap, children generally acquire their second language skills in the
following order:
1) Listening
• Listening is the first skill learners acquire in the Foundation Phase as they are not able to
speak the second language yet.
• There needs to be differentiation between listening as a natural ability and as a learned
skill.
• Listening is a skill that needs to be taught as an effective communication skill which will
allow learners to hear for meaning as well as to speak in an effective manner.
• To facilitate understanding and interpretation, it is crucial to teach learners how to listen
for information.
2) Speaking
• Each learner will experience learning an additional language in a different way.
• Simple language must be used when communicating with the learners.
• Breathing and articulation should be the focus when they are taught how to speak.
• In order to make sense of phonics, learners must be taught to recognise that a word
is made up of a sequence of distinct sounds.
• Just like listening, speaking is also a very acquired skill that needs to be practised
continuously in order for it to improve. The more learners listen to spoken language,
the more they will develop their speaking skills and the better they will
communicate.
• Speaking begins by using simple basic words that are usually associated with pictures
and from there it slowly develops into phrases and sentences.
• Simple strategies like role-play and simple conversations or dialogue must be used to
develop speaking and language skills.
3) Reading/viewing
• Basically, reading means to decode and identify print.
• The text and teaching strategy that the teacher will use, will be determined by the
specific purpose of the reading.
• In-dept approaches and methodologies are used in the home language, but in the
FAL reading is introduced in a much simpler form.
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