ED3443 - Teaching ESL to Indigenous Students
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 1 |
| Administered by: | College of Arts, Society & Education |
Limited offering available only to RATEP students.
This subject reviews the theory and practice of teaching English to Indigenous children as a second language from birth to 18 years. It explores the implications for Indigenous students of widespread language shift away from traditional languages over to creoles and other new language varieties. It deals with the specific educational needs of Indigenous students with language backgrounds other than Standard Australian English (including contact languages), processes of second language acquisition and strategies for developing oral language and the intentional teaching of English in early learning settings and school contexts. The subject focuses on how education policy frameworks and curriculum relating to ESL learners has developed to respond to Indigenous language situations. It also introduces pre-service teachers to how educators in varying education contexts might identify and support Indigenous ESL learners through engagement with Indigenous families and their communities, and through the use of various planning and teaching models and specific assessment tools such as the ESL Bandscales.
Learning Outcomes
- develop and apply knowledge of issues related to Indigenous language history and the cultural and linguistic background of Indigenous students;
- develop and implement strategies for the effective teaching of oral language and literacy and numeracy skills to Indigenous children;
- develop and plan language learning activities which support Indigenous students' second language acquisition; and;
- developed confidence and competence to engage with ESL assessment tools to identify specific areas of grammar/language you will need to develop in children from birth to five year old and for explicitly teaching English language to students from six to eighteen years of age;
- demonstrate Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at an Assured level and, for B.Ed (ECE) students, relevant ACECQA standards.
| Prerequisites: | ED2990 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | ED5510 ED4120 |
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Miss Juanita Sellwood |
| Method of Delivery: | WWW - LearnJCU |
| Assessment: | language story task (20%); language analysis (30%); sequence of language tasks (50%). |
| Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 25-Aug-2016 | |
| Face to face teaching (Online tutorial attendance at RATEP to be advised) | |
| Coordinator: | Miss Juanita Sellwood |
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| Assessment: | language story task (20%); language analysis grid (30%); sequence of language tasks (50%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 07-Apr-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Miss Juanita Sellwood |
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| Assessment: | language story task (20%); language analysis (30%); sequence of language tasks (50%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 08-Dec-2016 | |
| Coordinator: | Miss Juanita Sellwood |
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| Assessment: | language story task (20%); language analysis (30%); sequence of language tasks (50%). |
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