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Language is contextualized when children learn language skills in a familiar place, doing well known activities; it means that the students can learn different skills by performing real activities. An example would be a young child helping his or her mother to clean the house. The child learns about windows, chairs, sofas, doors and other house items by being immersed in that world. The child uses the context of the house to more freely commit any new words about kitchen items to memory. The teachers need to be creative when using contextualized language because he has to make students talk about here and now by referencing people, objects and action present in the immediate context. Students need to feel they are performing activities or talking about the real world. When using contextualized language, students feel more comfortable and motivated, and they learn better because they learn about different things by touching or seeing them. Some teachers apply contextual language support to their students when teaching new strategies or new words, but many don't. School children often have to learn new concepts in the absence of contextual supports. For example, students may have to learn the names of capital cities around the world; they're sometimes expected to do this without the aid of maps of foreign countries, pictures of the cities, or any other media.


I think, contextualized language can be applied in our reality, but as I said before, teachers have to be creative and look for the necessary sources to teach students in an interesting way, in a way that students feel learning a new language is really funny. We can apply contextualized language in our reality, but teachers’ preparation is the problem because there is a whole in our educational system and teachers’ interest.