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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

    English for Speakers of Other Languages or Dialects

  • Unit Code

    LAN3240

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Annamaria PAOLINO

Description

This unit examines important aspects of teaching English as an additional language or dialect to primary aged children from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Students will explore how to investigate and respond to the communicative and linguistic needs of these children, taking into account their cultural, social, language and educational backgrounds.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from LAN1260 and 1 unit from LAN2260, LAN3280

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN4238, LIT4010

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate orally and in written form an understanding of additional language/dialect learning processes, including their relationships to first language/dialect learning.
  2. Describe and evaluate current policies and support services for EAL/ESD learners in schools.
  3. Investigate and apply understandings of the language, sociocultural, and educational backgrounds of EAL/ESD students in order to design, deliver and evaluate effective learning programs.
  4. Investigate, select, apply and evaluate strategies to support EAL/ESD students language learning.

Unit Content

  1. Theory and practice related to first and additional language and dialect learning.
  2. Current policies and resources related to children learning English as an additional language or dialect.
  3. Planning for learning based on a needs analysis.
  4. Selection, use and evaluation of teaching and learning strategies.

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, tutorial activities and discussion, collaborative group work and field work.

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
TestOnline test40%
Case StudyCase study60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test40%
Case StudyCase study60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Gibbons, P. (2015). Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning : teaching English language learners in the mainstream classroom (Second edition). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/905525093
  • Gibbons, P. (2015). Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning : teaching English language learners in the mainstream classroom (Second edition). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/905525093

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.

LAN3240|2|1

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

    English for Speakers of Other Languages or Dialects

  • Unit Code

    LAN3240

  • Year

    2019

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Annamaria PAOLINO

Description

This unit examines important aspects of teaching English as an additional language or dialect to primary aged children from diverse cultural and language backgrounds. Students will explore how to investigate and respond to the communicative and linguistic needs of these children, taking into account their cultural, social, language and educational backgrounds.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 unit from LAN1260 and 1 unit from LAN2260, LAN3280

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN4238, LIT4010

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate orally and in written form an understanding of additional language/dialect learning processes, including their relationships to first language/dialect learning.
  2. Describe and evaluate current policies and support services for EAL/ESD learners in schools.
  3. Investigate and apply understandings of the language, sociocultural, and educational backgrounds of EAL/ESD students in order to design, deliver and evaluate effective learning programs.
  4. Investigate, select, apply and evaluate strategies to support EAL/ESD students language learning.

Unit Content

  1. Theory and practice related to first and additional language and dialect learning.
  2. Current policies and resources related to children learning English as an additional language or dialect.
  3. Planning for learning based on a needs analysis.
  4. Selection, use and evaluation of teaching and learning strategies.

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, tutorial activities and discussion, collaborative group work and field work.

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
TestOnline test40%
Case StudyCase study60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestOnline test40%
Case StudyCase study60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Gibbons, P. (2002). Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning: Teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom. (pp. ix, 165). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/48517687?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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