Course overview
This course aims to enable students to critically engage with principles and practices for selecting, enacting and evaluating contemporary approaches to pedagogy and assessment in TESOL.
- Course Orientation & Understanding Language
- Understanding Additional Language Learning
- Language Proficiency
- Learner Factors
- Learner Indigenous Resourses For Learning
- Language-And-Culture
- Describing The English Language: Syntax & Morphology
- Describing The English Language: Phonology
- Social And Classroom Contexts For English Language Learning
- A Functional Model Of Language & Proposals For Classroom Language Teaching
Course learning outcomes
- Discuss what it means to know a language as a structural, communicative, and social system, and their relevance to EALD learning and teaching
- Demonstrate an understanding of key theories of second language acquisition and their implications for EALD instruction
- Critically evaluate how individual learner differences, societal factors, and indigenous resources affect the acquisition and teaching of EALD
- Critique principles and practices for integrating language and culture in teaching and learning English as an additional language
- Analyse the relationship between language proficiency, social and academic language, and their implications for teaching EALD in diverse educational contexts
- Reflect on the processes of language and culture learning and teaching in diverse contexts
Degree list
The following degrees include this course