School: Education

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  • Unit Title

    Teaching Languages in Primary School
  • Unit Code

    LNG6260
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    10
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Annamaria PAOLINO

Description

This unit examines the contemporary Languages curriculum and how it is applied in the primary school context. The unit focuses on the socio-cultural context of Language teaching and learning and addresses planning, assessing, task design, differentiation, and resourcing for language learning. This unit is embedded in cross curricula pedagogy, addresses the role of the Languages teacher and the importance of establishing and maintaining sustainable and valued primary Languages programmes.

Prerequisite Rule

Must have passed LAN6260 and LAN6240

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Relate knowledge of the primary school context to the role and responsibility of being a language teacher.
  2. Relate and apply the requirements of the Languages curriculum when planning for the primary classroom context.
  3. Critique language acquisition theories/approaches/pedagogies by linking it to practice.
  4. Apply knowledge of assessment in Languages education by analysing and designing various Language activities, tasks, and resources to evaluate their potential in developing language skills for all students.
  5. Design and plan language learning experiences by applying a cross curricula approach.

Unit Content

  1. Pedagogies and approaches for teaching languages in the primary school context.
  2. Use curriculum documents to plan, teach and assess Language learning in the primary school context.
  3. Select, adapt, create and evaluate appropriate resources for language teaching.
  4. Types and tools of assessment used in assessing language learning.
  5. Knowledge, skills and attributes required to be an effective Languages teacher.
  6. How cross-curricula programmes foster language acquisition.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 28 x 4 hour seminar8 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

WIL - Field Experience

Students experience an environment where they observe and/or participate in the application of theoretical knowledge and skills in a professional setting, under the supervision of an expert or professional in the field. Examples include study tours, observation, shadowing, fieldwork, industry tours.

Additional Learning Experience Information

In this unit students will be required to complete 1 hour field experience in their own time within a school or organisation that works with or teaches speakers of other languages. Students will be required to complete a reflective journal of their experiences as part of the unit's assessment. It will be the student’s responsibility to organise this however, names of organisations/schools will be provided to the students by the Unit Coordinator. The purpose of this WIL placement is to provide the students with experience of teaching languages in the field (classroom). This will help the student to make connections between theory and classroom practice, and to gain practical experience in the teaching of languages.

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
AssignmentAssignment50%
PortfolioPortfolio50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
PortfolioPortfolio50%

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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