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

    Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • Unit Code

    LAN2250
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Maree HAYS

Description

This unit is an introduction to the teaching of secondary school English. It covers curriculum frameworks for English, lesson design, teaching strategies, resources, and instructional methods. Students will learn to develop lessons and lesson sequences that meet current curriculum requirements, with a focus on the core subject strands of language, literacy and literature. Common ideologies and misperceptions that undermind effective teaching and learning in English will be addressed. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of content knowledge in the English curriculum and its role in the development of students' reading and writing abilities. Demonstrations and examples used in the course will relate mainly to the lower secondary years.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN2150

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Appraise developments and trends in the monitoring of literacy in Australia.
  2. Construct effective lessons for reading and writing in lower secondary English.
  3. Demonstrate personal competence in the major learning outcomes of English, to a standard appropriate for teaching in the lower secondary school.
  4. Describe the language abilities and interests of students in Years 7-10, and relate these to curriculum goals and content for English.
  5. Evaluate some competing constructions of secondary English.
  6. Explain key principles of language learning and development in reading, writing and oral language.
  7. Explain the content and organisation of relevant curriculum frameworks for English, including the WA Curriculum Framework and incoming Australian Curriculum.
  8. Respond to and remediate writing by secondary students.
  9. Select and apply instructional techniques and technologies appropriate to students, content and curriculum goals.

Unit Content

  1. English curricula and frameworks: state, national, international.
  2. Evaluating, assessing and remediating student work.
  3. Ideologies and misperceptions in the teaching of English.
  4. Instructional techniques for concepts and skills in English: modelling, demonstration, guided reading, guided writing, and direct instruction.
  5. Language learning principles: psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and developmental aspects.
  6. Language processes in English: reading, writing, viewing, listening, speaking.
  7. Lesson planning for reading and writing: formats, requirements, processes.
  8. Standards, monitoring and trends in English achievement.
  9. Technologies in the teaching of English.
  10. Text types and content in secondary English.
  11. The place of English in the secondary curriculum: its history, purposes and functions.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecture presentations, discussions, readings and practical workshops.

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
Assignment Lesson planning and planning processes for reading 50%
AssignmentLesson planning for writing and assessment 50%

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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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

    Introduction to Secondary English Teaching
  • Unit Code

    LAN2250
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Maree HAYS

Description

This unit is an introduction to the teaching of secondary school English. It covers curriculum frameworks for English, lesson design, teaching strategies, resources, and instructional methods. Students will learn to develop lessons and lesson sequences that meet current curriculum requirements, with a focus on the core subject strands of language, literacy and literature. Common ideologies and misperceptions that undermine effective teaching and learning in English will be addressed. Particular emphasis will be placed on the importance of content knowledge in the English curriculum and its role in the development of students' reading and writing abilities. Demonstrations and examples used in the course will relate mainly to the lower secondary years.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN2150

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply understandings of language learning and factors affecting secondary English teaching.
  2. Select instructional techniques and technologies appropriate to students, content and curriculum goals.
  3. Use the content and organisation of relevant curricula for planning effective lessons in secondary English.
  4. Critically reflect on what makes reading and writing lessons effective in secondary English.

Unit Content

  1. English curricula and frameworks: state, national, international.
  2. The place of English in the secondary curriculum: its history, purposes and functions.
  3. Ideologies and misperceptions in the teaching of English.
  4. Language learning principles: psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and developmental aspects.
  5. Instructional techniques for concepts and skills in English: modelling, demonstration, guided reading, guided writing, and direct instruction.
  6. Language processes in English: reading, writing, viewing, listening, speaking.
  7. Lesson planning for reading and writing: formats, requirements, text types, content, processes in secondary English.
  8. Standards, monitoring and trends in English achievement.
  9. Technologies in the teaching of English.
  10. Evaluating, assessing and remediating student work.
  11. Text types and content in secondary English.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lecture presentations, discussions, readings and practical workshops.

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
Assignment Lesson planning and planning processes for reading 50%
AssignmentLesson planning for writing and assessment 50%

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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