School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    English 1: Language Learning and Development Birth-8 Years
  • Unit Code

    LAN1375
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Fiona BOYLAN

Description

This unit investigates children’s oral language development from birth to eight years. The diverse range of experiences of children from a range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds is considered emphasising the relationship between family, community, care and educational settings. Students examine research to explore the development of oral language from different theoretical and pedagogical perspectives. Guidelines and principles for planning, assessing and monitoring speech, language and communication progress are supported through exploration of the English Curriculum and Early Years Learning Framework. Students will examine evidence based practices to support oral language development including drama, play and literature.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LIT1110, LAN1265

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Describe contemporary theories of language development for birth to 8 years and their implications for early childhood teaching practice.
  2. Summarise typical and atypical development of oral language from birth to 8 years.
  3. Identify differences in the contexts of culturally and linguistically diverse language learners.
  4. Document and plan for children's language learning birth to 8 years using relevant early childhood curriculum.
  5. Establish partnerships with families and communities to support language learning for birth to 8 years.

Unit Content

  1. Contemporary theories of language development.
  2. Components of oral language, including semantics, phonology, syntax, pragmatics and morphology.
  3. Typical stages of children’s language development and language variations with an emphasis on oral language-literacy connection.
  4. Differences in contexts of culturally and linguistically diverse language learners including EAL/D, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, bilingual and multilingualism.
  5. Establishing partnerships with families and communities to support language learning.
  6. Methods of assessing, recording, monitoring and planning oral language experiences using the EYLF and English curriculum for all children birth-8.
  7. Evidence based practices to support oral language development including play, drama, literature and learning centres in birth-8 settings.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 212 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered12 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 212 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered12 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

May include a guest speaker.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEvidence based report50%
ExaminationExam50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportEvidence based report50%
ExaminationExam50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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