ED5871:04
Language Acquisition and Reading
Townsville
Flexible delivery. Second semester.
Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.
Staff: Dr P. Pagliano
This subject will examine the basis of language acquisition and reading from a special education perspective. The focus of the subject will be to develop appropriate strategies to effectively cater for the individual learning needs of students who are experiencing difficulties in developing competence in communication and/or literacy.
Learning Objectives:
- be critically aware of the research literature in the area of language acquisition and reading;
- familiarity with a range of assessment procedures, diagnostic techniques, prescriptive teaching strategies and appropriate precision teaching models that could be used to teach children with communication and/or reading difficulties;
- ability to develop an individualised education plan which effectively caters for the educational needs of a student with communication and/or reading difficulties and which maximises the cooperation of all people directly involved in the student’s program.
Assessment by continuous assessment (50%); academic paper (3,000 words) (50%).