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Credit points: 15.0
Coordinator: Julie Hamston.
Contact: A 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week, sometimes varied to one 2-hour seminar for the week.
Timetable: Double semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to:
- understand the social functional nature of language;
- understand the nature of the language learning process and the central role of social interaction in acquiring language;
- understand the relationship between text and context and theory of register;
- understand and discriminate between the various text types or genres in speech and writing;
- develop tools for analysing and talking about language;
- increase students' awareness of how they might use language more effectively in both written and spoken mode;
- understand the nature and variety of literature available to children;
- understand the role of literature in the classroom; and
- develop an awareness of strategies that will assist children in meaningful interaction with text.
Content:
An introductory study of aspects of language acquisition, language development, and the nature and variety of texts for children. Particular emphasis on the development and consolidation of students' communicative competence in language.
Assessment:
Essays and assignments equivalent to a total of approximately 4,500 words (85 per cent); a class presentation (15 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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