School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Secondary Languages Other Than English Education
  • Unit Code

    LAN6742
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    4
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Mrs Carli Anne SANBROOK

Description

This unit examines appropriate strategies/techniques for teaching languages in secondary school settings and the effective evaluation/ assessment of language learning. It will encompass programming and lesson planning, teaching strategies, classroom organisation and assessing student achievement through the use of print, audio visual and advanced technology resources.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed LAN6741

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded LAN4283, LAN6632, LAN4284

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate the current SCSA curriculum to inform and design lesson planning in secondary Languages.
  2. Critically evaluate a range of strategies and resources (including ICT) to develop effective teaching and learning activities for a secondary Languages classroom.
  3. Critically evaluate learning programs to create a sequence of lessons informed by the secondary Languages curriculum.
  4. Critically analyse and create a range of assessment strategies and tools to assess, make consistent judgement and provide feedback on secondary Languages students’ knowledge and understanding.

Unit Content

  1. Syllabus materials and range of teaching and learning strategies appropriate to the specific language taught eg. Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, for application to various age levels and backgrounds of learners.
  2. Lesson planning - strategies for listening, speaking, reading and writing appropriate for different levels of learners.
  3. Modules for use in LOTE programs: developing activities, planning a module framework, and writing language specific checklists.
  4. Selecting, adapting, creating and evaluating resources.
  5. Classroom observation.
  6. Assessment procedures including marking, grading and reporting for a specific group of learners (lower school and upper school).

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered10 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, peer teaching, journal-keeping, practical workshops, classroom observations and practice 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
AssignmentForward planning document - unit design 60%
AssignmentAssessment – diagnostic, formative and summative for Languages classroom40%

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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