ED4402:04
Teaching About Language
Townsville
20 lectures, 20 hours workshops. Second semester.
Available as an education elective.
Staff: Dr M Allan.
The subject provides the groundwork for understanding functional grammar and the genre approach as it is implemented in Australian schools. It covers the description and analysis of the grammar and meaning of spoken and written English and it also looks at current approaches to the teaching of explicit knowldege about language in the contexts of English as a second/foreign language and as a first language.
Learning Objectives:
- undertake analysis of lexis, grammar and discourse in real texts;
- develop a working knowledge of the Australian genre approach to teaching about language;
- develop ideas for raising language awareness as part of a first or second language teaching program.
Assessment by in-class take home test (50%); curriculum project (50%).
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