How knowledge theories affirm that knowledge is the obligatory component of linguistic competence
Hello Nata,
There is a huge amount of academic literature talking about the relationship between language learning and content learning... CLIL scaffolding is very useful to do it simultaneously:
Wells, Gordon. The meaning makers: Children learning language and using language to learn. Heinemann Educational Books Inc., 70 Court St., Portsmouth, NH 03801, 1986.
Gibbons, Pauline. Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning: Teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.
Mehisto, Peeter, David Marsh, and Maria Jesus Frigols. "Uncovering Clil." China: Macmillan Publishers Limited (2008).
On the other hand, the common idea is that language is needed to knowledge building (concepts, cognitive development), but what's useful for learning language is communication and interaction.
Griffiths, Carol. Language learning strategies: Theory and research. AIS St Helens, Centre for Research in International Education, 2004. http://www.crie.org.nz/research-papers/c_griffiths_op1.pdf
Hein, George. "Constructivist learning theory." Institute for Inquiry. Available at: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ifi/resources/constructivistlearning.html (1991). http://beta.edtechpolicy.org/AAASGW/Session2/const_inquiry_paper.pdf
I hope it will be useful... :-)
Language competence has sometimes been used as an idealized notion which somehow embodies the collective knowledge of a speech community in the person of an ideal speaker-hearer. Linguistic competence is an important notion of any theory of language, but one with an empirical basis. The notion of linguistic competence has to be articulated in terms of levels, domains, components, dimensions, modes etc. The core components of the grammar are included in the speaker's linguistic competence and these components corresponds to five of the major sub fields of linguistics:-
Phonetics, Phonology,Morphology,Syntax,Semantics, Pragmatics.
Thanks, Kiran! Do you have or know any articles which affirm that linguistic competence is an important notion of any theory of language, but one with an empirical basis?
Dear Nata,
1. Why do you put this question?
2. Why do we use language? What's its function? How do we create language?
Do these questions help you to answer your question?
If "yes", may I ask "why do they help to answer your question"?
We always have to ask why as the answer to this why is the criterion
we need to be able the verify the answer we expect and hopefully get.
But your why is also needed by the person, that is willing to answer you.
Why is the WHY of your question needed?
Too complicated, now?
But if we do not understand to use the WHYs
we will get no usable answers.
Hans-Josef Heck at http://www.wissenswissenschaft.de/
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