ABSTRACT
The essence of language learning and teaching is that it is experienced wholly, with bodily feelings and encounters. Learning has to do with language as the expression of whole experience, with bodily feelings and emotions. To live from the body's experience is the true quest of language learning and teaching. The exploration of the text gave the children access to rich and delicate patterns of language. While the children explore the fruit through their sense of taste, the teacher encourages the children to match the sensation with words. The inter-connectedness between talk and writing for children experiencing difficulty in language cannot be over-emphasized, for writing from these pupils is often limited. The demands writing imposes to produce an extended, coherent piece of language, forced the children to draw from their earlier talk for their ideas. The children's response to a picture creates conditions in which the mind is free to reflect.
