Master of Education in the teaching of Languages Other Than English (MEd(LOTE))

• Preamble
  • Clayton campus
• Target group
• Objectives
• Special admission requirements
• Course structure
  • Core subjects
  • Elective subjects
    • Linguistics department
    • Japanese department
    • Other
  • Project
• Credit provision

Preamble

Clayton campus

Course code: 2040

Contact: Ms Margaret Gearon

Target group

The Master of Education in the Teaching of Languages Other Than English degree is designed for teachers desiring to upgrade their qualifications in the methodology and principles of second language acquisition.

Objectives

The major objectives of the Master of Education (LOTE) pathway are to provide students with knowledge and understanding of:

• reflective practices such as diary/journal keeping and action research thus allowing teachers of languages other than English to evaluate their approach to the teaching and learning of a second language in a classroom environment;
• the second language acquisition theories underlying good classroom practice and the implications of these theories and those concerning the nature of language and their influence on classroom second language teaching and learning;
• a range of techniques for planning, measuring and recording progress in the development of second language proficiency of students in a variety of classroom environments;
• the need to establish a network of teachers of languages other than English which will provide possibilities of exchange visits to each others' classes, exchange of ideas, and support for trialling a variety of strategies for differentiated second language teaching and learning.

Special admission requirements

Candidates will hold a university degree including a three-year post Year 12 major in a language other than English or its equivalent.

Course structure

Core subjects

• GED3833 Theory and practice of second language education (12 points)
• GED3815 Classroom-based research in second-language education (12 points) or `Principles of second-language acquisition' offered in the Department of Linguistics or GED3800F LOTE methodology (12 points) and GED3834F Advanced practicum in language teaching: LOTE component (12 points)

Elective subjects

• GED3809 Literacy and technology
• GED3812 Educational applications of second language acquisition research
• GED3818 Communicative language teaching
• GED3830 Curriculum writing and syllabus design for second language education
• GED3832 Functional analysis of discourse
• GED3840 Assessment in foreign and second-language learning
• GED3847 Theory and principles of bilingual/immersion education
• GED3848 Establishing, maintaining and evaluating an immersion program
• GED3849 Developing materials for content-based teaching in a LOTE
• GED3850 The classroom and the bilingual/immersion teacher

Linguistics department

• Bilingualism
• Principles of second language acquisition

Japanese department

• Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

Other

• Any fifth-year language subject from a relevant language department.
• Any of the research subjects in the Master of Education course information list.

Project

The project, of approximately 20,000 words, must focus on a topic relevant to teaching languages other than English. Students intending to enrol in the project must complete an appropriate research methodology subject.

Credit provision

Credit for all subjects undertaken as part of either a Graduate Certificate or a Graduate Diploma in LOTE, or a Graduate Certificate or a Graduate Diploma in Bilingual/Immersion Education, in this faculty may be transferred to the Master of Education (LOTE).