ED5871 - Language Acquisition and Reading

Credit points:	04
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to Postgraduate Certificate, BEd (Professional Development) and Master of Education students.

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 Outcomes

• 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 students program;
• 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.

Availabilities
, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2005
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Paul Pagliano.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 41
Census Date 30-Nov-2005
Face to face teaching 07-Nov-2005 to 01-Jan-2006
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Paul Pagliano.
Assessment:	.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.