Foundations of Language Development

Question: Describe how you would use Sunday in the Park for your own educational context. Explain how would you exploit this text for language teacher development? Answer: In Bel Kaufman's "Sunday in the Park", there are several themes and truths discussed in an ordinary scene. The speech used by the author is Heteroglossia as it has more than one expressed viewpoints in the text. One of the major challenges in a language learner experience is the proper use of adjectives for describing characters, events and settings. There are a few tasks that can be pursued by the teacher for influencing efficiency in the language class. The different characters and view-point form a situation for debate for the speech by the lead characters of the story (Lenneberg and Lenneberg 2014). There are two methods through which language can be developed for the story- Debate from humanity point of view and writing a dialog journal for helping the students properly use adjectives. For debate, the student would be divided into two groups to stand in favor or against of the woman. Time must be allowed for discussion. The debate activity can help in knowing different viewpoints from humanity point of view. The activity can deepen understanding and influence viewpoints of students through debating. By writing the dialog journal, the different viewpoints can be addressed. The ideas, experiences and reflections can be shared for improving communication between teachers and students (Hoff 2013). In conclusion, the two methodologies- debate and dialogue journal, used for language development help in defining students responses. The cultural elements, grammar structure and vocabulary can help the students in improving interaction skills. The exchange of ideas and experiences gives a synthesis of personal evaluation and shows literature from multiple standpoints. The debate and dialogue journal would promote excitement and motivation among learners and learn the language written in it. Thus, teachers need to find their own way of manipulating the class in a seemingly desirable way (Lenneberg and Lenneberg 2014). References Hoff, E., 2013.Language development. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning. Lenneberg, E. and Lenneberg, E., 2014.Foundations of language development. 3rd ed. New York: Academic Press.