Language across the curriculum (LAC)

This session was dedicated to enphasize the cruzial paper that the language in the assimilation of knowledge

 Language Across the Curriculum (LAC) as a design recognizes the fact that language teaching is not limited to explicit and specific subjects which are reserved to him, like the teaching of the mother tongue, the teaching of a foreign language, the second.

Language learning and education also take place in each and every subject in school, in each and every academic/mental activity, across the whole curriculum – whether we are conscious of it or not. This reflects the latest research findings on Reading Comprehension (which is required extensively in each non-linguistic subject-matter in learning and teaching) and with insights that LS/L1 as a subject in school cannot be solely responsible for language education; the development of language skills and competences has to be integrated also into subject-specific teaching.

We worked through the following aspects:

1. Goals in connection with Language Across the Curriculum

2. Beneficial relationship between LS/L1 and LAC

3. Components of conceptual and discourse competence in subject-specific contexts

4. Perspectives: LAC as initiation and participation