Brown Ch. 17 and Kumar Ch. 9 & 10

In chapter nine of Kumar there is a quote that says “successful language communication is a manner of realities coming together that make up linguistic, extralinguistic, situational, and extrasituational contexts…using language for effective communication integrates contextual factors, and, therefore, teaching it for effective learning must invoke contextualization of linguistic input” (213). I think one of the best ways to tie all of these contexts together and make students recognize context as well as integrate language skills like chapter ten depicts is metacognition.  I think the most beneficial way to teach language skills and to see these skills across different contexts is to get students to think about their own thinking and recognize what they are doing in their thinking to make sense of the language communication they are doing. It is important to provide students with a context but to also take it one step further and have them think about the context or contexts in which we are asking them to think. I feel that having students think about their own thinking and the way that they contextualize their communication and their language skills will give them a true understanding of language and a great foundation to build upon.