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

    Languages Other Than English Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    LAN6741
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the principles of LOTE teaching and learning and the linguistic and psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition. It examines the development of the Communicative Approach to Language Teaching and its different syllabus types as well as the various factors that affect language learning in students. The unit will also focus on the Australian curriculum for LOTE and begin to look at various lesson designs for LOTE classes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN6633, LAN4213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically review the current SCSA curriculum and main theories of second language learning to identify outcomes for lesson planning in secondary Languages.
  2. Research appropriate scholarly literature to critically analyse best practice teaching strategies and resources (including ICT) in a secondary Languages classroom.
  3. Evaluate and design differentiated teaching and learning activities for a secondary Languages classroom.
  4. Design lesson plans with clear learning goals informed by the secondary Languages curriculum.

Unit Content

  1. Various approaches to LOTE methodology: grammar/translation, direct method, audio-lingual, cognitive code, functional-notional, communicative, and of the theories on which they are based.
  2. Languages in the Australian and West Australian curriculum.
  3. Communicative Language Teaching, task-based language teaching through self-access and related syllabus/course development for languages; how these are reflected in current approaches to language teaching.
  4. LOTE planning: developing activities, planning for the classroom.
  5. Lesson Planning; Objectives/intentions; Task and text selection; timing and sequencing.
  6. Resource Centres for LOTE; selecting, adapting, creating and evaluating resources.
  7. Self Access Learning and differentiation in the language classroom.

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 Offered12 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Micro-teaching.

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
AssignmentAssignment 160%
AssignmentAssignment 240%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 160%
AssignmentAssignment 240%

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

    Languages Other Than English Education Foundations
  • Unit Code

    LAN6741
  • Year

    2024
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

Description

This unit provides an introduction to the principles of LOTE teaching and learning and the linguistic and psycholinguistic theories of language acquisition. It examines the development of the Communicative Approach to Language Teaching and its different syllabus types as well as the various factors that affect language learning in students. The unit will also focus on the Australian curriculum for LOTE and begin to look at various lesson designs for LOTE classes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN6633, LAN4213

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically review the current SCSA curriculum and main theories of second language learning to identify outcomes for lesson planning in secondary Languages.
  2. Research appropriate scholarly literature to critically analyse best practice teaching strategies and resources (including ICT) in a secondary Languages classroom.
  3. Evaluate and design differentiated teaching and learning activities for a secondary Languages classroom.
  4. Design lesson plans with clear learning goals informed by the secondary Languages curriculum.

Unit Content

  1. Various approaches to LOTE methodology: grammar/translation, direct method, audio-lingual, cognitive code, functional-notional, communicative, and of the theories on which they are based.
  2. Languages in the Australian and West Australian curriculum.
  3. Communicative Language Teaching, task-based language teaching through self-access and related syllabus/course development for languages; how these are reflected in current approaches to language teaching.
  4. LOTE planning: developing activities, planning for the classroom.
  5. Lesson Planning; Objectives/intentions; Task and text selection; timing and sequencing.
  6. Resource Centres for LOTE; selecting, adapting, creating and evaluating resources.
  7. Self Access Learning and differentiation in the language classroom.

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 Offered12 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Micro-teaching.

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
AssignmentAssignment 160%
AssignmentAssignment 240%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment 160%
AssignmentAssignment 240%

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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