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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.
This unit provides pre-service teachers with the knowledge, skills and understanding important to working with children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds. It explores the ideas of culture, cultural competence, multiculturalism, intercultural relationships, language and dialect and considers ways in which early childhood educators can establish educational contexts that are responsive to the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of children and their families. The importance of effective collaboration with CaLD families is emphasised and ways to achieve this are examined. The unit looks at the theories and research about supporting home languages and learning English as an additional language or dialect as well as effective teaching practices.
Enrolment in this elective requires that students have completed and passed the following units: LAN1265: English 1: Oral Communication LAN2266: English 2: Literacy learning in the early years LAN3246: English 3: Literacy in the junior primary years of school LAN3260: English 4: Planning and differentiating the English curriculum in early childhood
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Lectures, workshops, professional inquiry.
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.
| Type | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Written paper | 50% |
| Participation | Professional Inquiry | 50% |
| Type | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Written paper | 50% |
| Participation | Professional Inquiry | 50% |
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.
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:
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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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.
This unit provides pre-service teachers with the knowledge, skills and understanding important to working with children and families from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds. It explores the ideas of culture, cultural competence, multiculturalism, intercultural relationships, language and dialect and considers ways in which early childhood educators can establish educational contexts that are responsive to the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of children and their families. The importance of effective collaboration with CaLD families is emphasised and ways to achieve this are examined. The unit looks at the theories and research about supporting home languages and learning English as an additional language or dialect as well as effective teaching practices.
Enrolment in this elective requires that students have completed and passed the following units: LAN1265: English 1: Oral Communication LAN2266: English 2: Literacy learning in the early years LAN3246: English 3: Literacy in the junior primary years of school LAN3260: English 4: Planning and differentiating the English curriculum in early childhood
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
Lectures, workshops, professional inquiry.
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.
| Type | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Written paper | 50% |
| Participation | Professional Inquiry | 50% |
| Type | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Assignment | Written paper | 50% |
| Participation | Professional Inquiry | 50% |
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.
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:
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.
LAN4160|1|2