483-127 Learning Area (Sec) LOTE A Mod.Languages

Completion of three years of approved university language study at post-VCE level. Students with other qualifications will need to arrange to be assessed by a language department of an Australian university as being of equivalent proficiency.

A study of concepts and practices in modern language teaching and learning, with emphasis on developing teachers as reflective practitioners, capable of fostering in their students communicative competence in a new language and of making the experience of language learning an educational one. Students will be introduced to commonly used texts and materials and will be taught a range of techniques for employing them.

Assignments totalling 4000 words or equivalent.