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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Spoken Language in Primary School

  • Unit Code

    LAN1260

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Helen Joanne ADAM

Description

This unit examines spoken language and the role of children's literature in stimulating the development of communication and thinking skills. Students will explore how to investigate and respond to the communicative needs of children from diverse social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed EDL1250

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LIT1010 Unit equivalent to LAN1265

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate and apply understandings of the sociocultural, educational and language backgrounds of children in order to design, deliver and evaluate effective language learning experiences.
  2. Investigate and evaluate strategies using childrens literature to develop spoken communication and thinking skills.
  3. Investigate, select, apply and evaluate strategies to support childrens development of listening and speaking for a range of audiences, purposes and contexts.
  4. Reflect on and evaluate their own use of spoken language in a range of contexts, including educational.
  5. Use academic conventions, processes and ICT's to demonstrate understanding of language learning.

Unit Content

  1. Planning processes that support spoken language learning for diverse learners.
  2. Selection, use and evaluation of teaching and learning strategies.
  3. The identification and evaluation of strategies which use childrens literature to develop spoken language and thinking skills.
  4. Theory and practice related to spoken language learning and use, including how it supports other learning.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, written tasks and presentations using ICT.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeLesson activities and reflection40%
PortfolioApplied language tasks60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeLesson activities and reflection40%
PortfolioApplied language tasks60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Education

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Spoken Language in Primary School

  • Unit Code

    LAN1260

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Helen Joanne ADAM

Description

This unit examines spoken language and the role of children's literature in stimulating the development of communication and thinking skills. Students will explore how to investigate and respond to the communicative needs of children from diverse social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed EDL1250

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LIT1010 Unit equivalent to LAN1265

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Investigate and apply understandings of the sociocultural, educational and language backgrounds of children in order to design, deliver and evaluate effective language learning experiences.
  2. Investigate and evaluate strategies using childrens literature to develop spoken communication and thinking skills.
  3. Investigate, select, apply and evaluate strategies to support childrens development of listening and speaking for a range of audiences, purposes and contexts.
  4. Reflect on and evaluate their own use of spoken language in a range of contexts, including educational.
  5. Use academic conventions, processes and ICT's to demonstrate understanding of language learning.

Unit Content

  1. Planning processes that support spoken language learning for diverse learners.
  2. Selection, use and evaluation of teaching and learning strategies.
  3. The identification and evaluation of strategies which use childrens literature to develop spoken language and thinking skills.
  4. Theory and practice related to spoken language learning and use, including how it supports other learning.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture10 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 210 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial10 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, written tasks and presentations using ICT.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeLesson activities and reflection40%
PortfolioApplied language tasks60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Reflective PracticeLesson activities and reflection40%
PortfolioApplied language tasks60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Edwards-Groves, C., Anstey, M., & Bull, G. (2013). Classroom Talk: Understanding Dialogue, Pedagogy and Practice. Marrickville: PETAA. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/860770331?databaseList=638

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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