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2. ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS..
1. What is Awareness?
2. What is Language Awareness?
3. How do you acquire awareness?

3. WHAT IS LANGUAGE AWARENESS?
• Language Awareness can be defined as explicit knowledge about
language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in
language learning, language teaching and language use.
• It covers a wide spectrum of fields.
• For example, Language Awareness issues include exploring the
benefits that can be derived from developing a good knowledge
about language, a conscious understanding of how languages work,
of how people learn them and use them.

4. WHAT IS LANGUAGE AWARENESS?
• Can we become better language users or learners or teachers if we
develop a better understanding?
• And can we gain other advantages: e.g. in our relations with other
people and/or cultures, and in our ability to see through language
that manipulates or discriminates?
• Language Awareness interests also include learning more about
what sorts of ideas about language people normally operate with,
and what effects these have on how they conduct their everyday
affairs: e.g. their professional dealings.

5. WHAT IS LANGUAGE AWARENESS?
⚫ (Cognitivist learning theory)
⚫ As a prerequisite for the restructuring of the learner’s mental
representation of the language, some degree of conscious awareness
is necessary

6. AWARENESS RAISING ACTIVITIES?
⚫ Explicit focus on the rules of the system
⚫ Help learners uncover gaps in their knowledge

7. ATTENTION – NOTICING - UNDERSTANDING
• Attention: Pay attention, alert, interested, involved and curious- features of target skill.
• Noticing: Conscious registering of the occurrence of some event. When do you notice things
of language?
 make connections
 familiarity
 absence of something
 noticing the gap
• Understanding: No awareness without understanding, recognition of general rules,
principles or patterns

8. THE CELL PHONE AGE
⚫Do you have a cell phone? Yes, No/Why?
⚫What functions does your cell phone provide?

9. THE CELL PHONE AGE
⚫ Why did you choose your particular cell phone? Does it have any
functions that you never use?
⚫ How do you think cellular phones will change in the coming years?
⚫ Do you think you have good ‘cell phone manners? Can you give any
examples?
⚫ In what places is cell phone usage banned? Do you agree with this?

10. CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING POPULATIONSAND DESIGN A CELLPHONE FOR THEM

11. CONSIDER….
⚫ Features
⚫ Uses
⚫ Restrictions
⚫ Price
⚫ Shape
⚫ Population
⚫ Advantages

12. ACTIVITY
Choose a topic and plan a set of activities to teach a specialized
language
⚫ Activate background knowledge: brainstorm vocabulary (tyres, gears, brakes, saddles, frame)
⚫ Check gist: Asking general questions
⚫ Check register: Establish register variables (tenor), degree of formality
⚫ Check details: provide a grid to fill, multiple choice questions, repeat recording as many
times as necessary