Walking Through Grade 9

English
Module 4: Unchanging Values in a Changing Time
Focus: Contextualization and Localization
 GETTING READY!

• Visit Module 4 of the Learner’s Material (LM)

• Group 1 will be working on Lesson 1, Group 2 on Lesson 2 and

so on

• Read all the tasks under each phase (Your Initial task, etc)

• Identify the tasks that made use of contextualization and

localization

• Identify the tasks where contextualization and localization could

be applied

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 GETTING READY!

• Use the template below for the said purpose

Phase Activities that made use of Activities where contextualization
contextualization and and localization could be applied
localization.

Your Initial Task

Your Text

Your Discovery
Task

Your Final Task

(Enabling task
only)

• Write your answers on a manila paper

• Have your outputs presented to the class
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How did you find
the activity?

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 What have you
noticed from your
answers?

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Why is it necessary
contextualize and
localize the tasks?
Why?

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How did you feel when
you’re identifying the
contextualized and
localized tasks?

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What helped you in
identifying them?

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What have you realized
about contextualizing
and localizing
instruction?

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Contextualization and
Localization:
Guiding Principles
 GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Localization maximizes materials that

are locally available
 Contextualizing and Localizing Materials
Sample Activity
EXAMPLE: Lesson 1 (LM)
Page 440

Task 7 can be CONTEXTUALIZED AND LOCALIZED in terms of

Materials by using a video, other photos, a situation, caricature,
a comic strip instead of the photos above. Make sure that
replacements are of the same theme.
 GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• To contextualize, teachers use authentic

materials, activities, interests, issues, and needs
from learners’ lives

• Should create rooms for students to pose

problems and issues and develop strategies
together for addressing them
 Contextualizing and Localizing
Task’s Content
Sample Activity
EXAMPLE: Lesson 1 (LM)
Page 439

Task 2 can be CONTEXTUALIZED in terms of CONTENT by using

other song that is more current and with the same meaning.
Do you know one?
Contextualizing and
Localizing Issues
Sample Activity
EXAMPLE:
Lesson 1 (LM)
Page 262

Task 2 can be can be CONTEXTUALIZED AND LOCALIZED by

using another social issue relevant to the Lesson Sub theme:
“HOLDING ON TO A DREAM IN A CHANGING WORLD”.
Can you suggest an example?
 Contextualizing and Localizing
Transfer of Learning Processes
Sample Activity

GRASPS is one good way to contextualize and localize

situations and interests.
 POINTS TO PONDER

• The localized or contextualized curriculum is

based on local needs and relevance for the
learners where there is flexibility and
creativity in the lessons.
 GETTING READY!

• Tailor-fit the lesson

• Build on what they already have
• Accommodate and respect cultural,
linguistic, and racial diversity
 Revisit, Reflect and Revise
• Go back to your outputs in the preliminary activity

• Choose an activity where contextualization and localization

can be applied.

• Contextualize and localize the activities in terms of :

1. Materials
2. Issues
3. Processes
4. Activity’s content
Keep in mind...
Each student is unique!