1) What is the role of Language Arts in the Malaysian primary ESL curriculum?

Role of language arts

 The Language Arts Curriculum embodies the full scope of reading, writing, and thinking skills.
 Specific objectives include instilling a love of literature, ensuring appropriate writing skills,
acknowledging the necessity of correct grammar, spelling and improving standardized testing
skills.
 It helps the pupils a lot in mastering the English language.
 It emphasizes the language skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking, grammar, and language
arts.
 It is more focused.
 Teacher knows what to teach and pupils know what to learn.
 Teacher can teach using the focused skills given per day.
 It gives the teacher clear picture of what they need to achieve (learning outcomes) at the end of
the lesson.
 The integration of language arts in the lesson will motivate the pupils to learn the language in a
fun way and thus enjoy language learning
 to help the pupils build a strong foundation of salient language skills and sub-skills as defined in
the learning standards.
 Basic listening and speaking skills will help the pupils enrich their understanding of the language.
 The phonics skill will help the pupils begin to read and a good foundation in penmanship will
help the pupils acquire good handwriting.
 to increase the learner's literacy in the four main components.

2) How do you link Language Arts to the Themes in the primary ESL curriculum?

By using music/chant/stories

For example, there is a theme (world of knowledge) ----- an d one of the topics in this theme is get
dressed. A teacher can use chant/song/rap for students to practice new vocabularies.
3) What are the resources in Language Arts?

Digital resources - video, music, rap, chant

Printed resources – story book, story board, flashcards used to introduce aplhabets/new vocabs….

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