What is
Language
Experience
Method?
• Astrategy to develop and
reinforce reading and
writing using personal
experience and students
own repertoire of
language.
• The student themselves
initiate with their own
3.
What is
Language
Experience
Method?
• TheLanguage Experience
Approach supports learners
concept development and
vocabulary while offering
many opportunities for
meaningful reading and
writing activities through the
use of personal experiences
and oral language.
Following discussion,
writing aboutdifferent
topics and experience is
captured which can later
be about.
When we can
use
Language
Experience
Method?
Simple sentences using a
repetitive structure are
written for the student to
illustrate and copy,
supporting both reading
and writing.
Where to apply/use
Language
ExperienceMethod?
o The Language Experience
Approach is a whole
language approach that
promotes the reading and
writing through the use of
personal experience and
oral language. It can use in
tutorial or classroom
settings with
homogeneous and
heterogeneous groups of
learners.
8.
How to
used
Language
Experience
Method?
THE
EXPERIENCE
The languageexperience
approach involves a shared
experience such as everyday
happenings, common
school experiences a
classroom event or hands-
on activity, excursion but
can also include students
personal experiences or
ideas.
9.
How to
used
Language
Experience
Method?
SPOKEN
LANGUAGE
The teacherrole in language
experience is to support the
student to recreate the
experience orally as they:
Capitalize on student’s interests
and experiences:
Prompt the student to reflect on the
experience.
Ask question to elicit details about the
experience through more explicit
language.
Help student rehearse the ideas they
will be writing about.
10.
How to
used
Language
Experience
Method?
CREATING THE
TEXT
Thetext might be written by
the teacher or by the
student. As the writer, the
teacher acts as a model,
demonstrating how thought
and words can be
represented in writing as
student dictate their ideas.
11.
How to
used
Language
Experience
Method?
READING
As thelanguage experience
texts are relevant to the
student, the opportunity to
read them a loud creates a
positive experience and
reinforces the reciprocity
between reading and
writing.
12.
The Founder ofLanguage Experience
Approach
Roach Van Allen (1964), a
proponent of the language
experience approach, describes
the following approach,
describes the following
principles upon which it was
founded:
What I can think about, I can
say.
What I can say, I can write.
I can read what I have written.
I can read what others have
written for me to read.