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A teacher of class VIII while teaching a grammatical item of reported speech asked her learners to read a story/text in which the direct statement appeared many times and she made them convert into indirect statement with her support. She also gave them many more sentences to do on their own. Then she drew the attention on how a direct statement gets converted into indirect and how the changes in verb, adverbs and others occur. What is this strategy known as?

A teacher of class VIII while teaching a grammatical item of reported speech asked her learners to read a story/text in which the direct statement appeared many times and she made them convert into indirect statement with her support. She also gave them many more sentences to do on their own. Then she drew the attention on how a direct statement gets converted into indirect and how the changes in verb, adverbs and others occur. What is this strategy known as? Correct Answer Consciousness raising

Language learning is the process of learning to speak and understand a foreign language. It helps children to acquire practical commands of language. It is a result of deliberate and conscious effort for a better understanding of foundational skills of language learning

  • Language strategies and activities ensure the growth of learners' knowledge and assess their level of understanding. It is an authentic source to determine that the classroom teaching is resulting in actual knowledge enhancement of the learners.

Key Points

  • The above-mentioned strategy is known as Consciousness-raising which refers to drawing the attention of the learners through examples to context and use as it is the process to raise something to consciousness which means to make learners aware of something.
  • Consciousness-raising activities are designed to raise the learners’ language awareness. The learners are required to solve the problems interactively in order to formulate both the explicit and the implicit knowledge.
  • The consciousness-raising activities can help learners build their conscious knowledge and understanding of how the language works grammatically. These activities make the learners aware of language so they can achieve an accurate use of the tenses in an appropriate context for communication. 

Hence we can conclude that the above-mentioned strategy is known as Consciousness-raising.

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