EDP2102

Literacy and culture in the curriculum

Dr I S Walker and Dr J Edwards

6 points - 4 hours per week - First semester - Peninsula - Prerequisite: EDP1101

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have developed an understanding of the reading and writing process; have explored their own understandings of their social and cultural worlds; be able to use a variety of teaching and monitoring methods to assist children with their reading and writing development and their social and cultural understandings; have acquired an appreciation of the particular needs of the non-English speaking background child in primary settings; be able to use a variety of teaching and monitoring methods in the teaching of English as a second language (ESL); have acquired an understanding of the place of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) in the curriculum.

Synopsis This subject explores issues and pedagogy relating to children's literacy development during the primary school years. In particular, it examines the reading and writing processes and specific teaching methodologies and monitoring procedures, including those appropriate to ESL and LOTE teaching. The subject will also explore children's developmental understandings of their world and how they can be effective participants in a multicultural society. Planning, teaching and monitoring strategies to achieve this will be introduced.

Assessment Written assignment: 60% - Logbook of fieldwork and workshop tasks: 40%

Recommended texts

Anstey M and Bull G The literacy labyrinth Prentice-Hall, 1996
Gibbons P Learning to learn in a second language PETA, 1991
Gilbert R Studying society and environment Macmillan, 1996

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