UniMelb UGHB96 : 483-113 Language and Literacy in the Classroom

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483-113 Language and Literacy in the Classroom

Year 1 Bach. Teaching.

Credit points: 10.0

Coordinator: Kristina Love.

Contact: Three hours of lectures and workshops each week.

Timetable: First semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

demonstrate their understanding of the relationship between the form of texts and the social contexts in which they occur and the purposes which they serve;
demonstrate their understanding that society demands multiple literacies of its members;
demonstrate personal competence in a number of text forms or genres appropriate to their teaching interests;
analyse the text forms used in their particular fields of knowledge, so as to be able to model and teach these effectively;
demonstrate their understanding that class, gender and ethnicity are implicated in language use;
demonstrate an awareness of the need for literacy to be taught across the curriculum; and
apply as appropriate in their teaching some of the theories of language and literacy acquisition studies.

Content:

This subject will introduce students to the nature and development of language and literacy by examining the social nature of literacy, theories of language and literacy acquisition, the application of language and literacy teaching to all subject areas of the curriculum, issues related to texts (written, spoken, and visual) including their social construction and the ways in which readers make meaning from them, the nature and scope of text types used in classrooms, and the social and personal implications of the development and attainment of literacy proficiency.

Assessment:

Two exercises of 750 words each, one involving analysis of some of the student's own written work in a discipline area, the other reflecting on professional reading in Language and Literacy in the light of classroom experience (25 per cent each): one exercise of 1,500 words or equivalent, involving analysis of data collected from the classroom during School Experience and Practice Teaching (50 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

Christie F (ed) Literacy for a Changing World ACER Melbourne 1990
Derewianka B Exploring How Texts Work Primary English Teaching Association Sydney 1990
Gilbert P Gender Literacy and the Classroom Australian Reading Assoc)Adelaide 1989
Heath SB Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms Cambridge University Press Cambridge 1983
Meek M How Texts Teach What Readers Learn Thimble Press Stroud Gloucestershire 1988
Smith F Understanding Reading (2nd ed) Holt Reinhart & Winston New York 1978
Unsworth L (ed) Literacy Learning and Teaching: Language as Social Practice in the Primary School Macmillan Education Australia Melbourne 1993
Wickert R No Single Measure Sydney Faculty of Advanced Education Sydney 1990

Bach. Teaching subject : Next:-120 | Search | Help Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus) (Volume 5 page 59)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
Authorised by:   Academic Registrar
Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au

Maintained by:   Dept. of Language, Literacy and Arts Education, Faculty of Education (Parkville Campus).