The world is now in the “Knowledge age” where the challenge of education is to prepare learners in the information drift and rapidly changing world. Students in this age must be prepared to compete in a global economy, understand and operate complex communication and information systems, and apply higher level thinking skills to make decisions and solve problems.
The Language Arts and Multiliteracies Curriculum (LAMC) addresses these needs. This is the rationale why Mother Tongue, Filipino and English follow a unified framework which allows easy transition from acquiring and learning one language to another.
The K12 Baseic Education curriculum has five (5) components. Each component is essential to the learners’ ability to communicate effectively in a language leading them to achieve communicative competence and multiliteracies in the Mother Tongue, Filipino and English. The diagram in the shows that the heart and core of LAMC is making meaning through language and aims to develop graduates who are communicatively competent and multiliterates.
- Language is the basis of all communication and the primary instrument of thought. Thinking, learning, and language are interrelated. It is governed by rules and systems (language conventions) which are used to explore and communicate meaning.
- Language is the foundation of all human relationships
- Successful language learning involves viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and accuracy. Language learning should include a plethora of strategies and activities that helps students focus on both MEANING and ACCURACY.
- All languages are interrelated and interdependent. Facility in the first language (L1) strengthens and supports the learning of other languages (L2). Acquisition of sets of skills and implicit metalinguistic knowledge in one language (common underlying proficiency or CUP) provides the base for the development of both the first language (L1) and the second language (L2)
- Language acquisition and learning is an active process that begins at birth and continues throughout life.
- Learning requires meaning. We learn when we use what we know to understand what is new. Start with what the students know; use that to introduce new concepts.
- Successful language learning involves viewing, listening, speaking, reading and writing activities and accuracy. Language learning should include a plethora of strategies and activities that helps students focus on both MEANING and ACCURACY.
By: Joan J. Quiroz | Master Teacher I | Lamao National High School | Limay, Bataan
