what is language awareness?

- understanding, that language is not only what you read from books. It is also pictures. 

-language awareness is understanding, that also art and music is language.

-understanding children´s own language from their own world.

-respecting dialects. 

 

-explicit knowledge about language, and consious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use.

- LA can be divided into three dimensions: linguistic-systematic, cultural political and social-aducational