Literacy in the Learning Areas
This section provides support for teachers to integrate literacy into their specialist subject areas, based on the Teaching as Inquiry framework.
Each learning area has its own language or languages. For each area, students need specific help as they learn:
- the specialist vocabulary associated with that area
- how to read and understand its texts
- how to communicate knowledge and ideas in appropriate ways
- how to listen and read critically, assessing the value of what they hear and read.
In addition to such help, students who are new learners of English or coming into an English-medium environment for the first time need explicit and extensive teaching of English vocabulary, word forms, sentence and text structures, and language uses. Visit ESOL online for further resources.
