Arba’atul Jawānib fī Ta’līmil Lugah wa Āṣāruhā Al-Mutarattabah ‘Alā Takāmulil Mahārāt Al-Lugawiyyah

Abstract

The principle of the four strands of language acquisition is to balance language learning that consist of those four strands equally. The first strand is an education through the inputs that are focused on meaning such as learning through listening and reading where the interest of the learner conveyed by language. The second, an education through the outputs focused on meaning such as learning speech and writing where the learner interested in transferring ideas to someone else perfectly. The third, education through full attention to language elements and features where the learner attracted to study of sounds, vocabularies, grammar and etc. The fourth, fluency development in the use of language elements and features in the four skills, listening, speaking, reading and writing. Basically, the ideal teaching for language learning has to be balanced in theses four aspects, each of them with twenty five percent of the time-teaching in the class. Three aspects focus on the meaning, thus three quarters of the quota for teaching is mostly focused on the meaning. The other aspect focuses on the elements and features of language. Through this balance, the goals of language learning will be achieved and from fluency in the use of elements of the language and the features of sounds, vocabularies and grammar, etc. So that the learner can communicate effectively and appropriately.