Course overview
This course aims to equip students with theoretical understandings and pedagogical strategies needed to teach learners of English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EALD). Students will enhance their understanding of EALD learners and their learning in mainstream classes; develop pedagogical strategies and assessments; and create resources to support EALD students to access and engage with learning areas across the curriculum.
- EALD Learners
- Language demands on the Curriuculum
- Ecology of EALD learners
- Teaching for EALD effective learning
- Project-based language learning
- Content and language integrated learning
- Oracy
- Reading
- Assessment
- Communities
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse the linguistic, cultural and learning needs of linguistically diverse learners
- Analyse the linguistic demands of their teaching context
- Critically investigate an approach to teaching linguistically diverse learners in the context of language acquisition research
- Evaluate and justify the selection of a range of strategies for making learning accessible to linguistically diverse learners
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 66388
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Online
Group 1
Class number 60077
Section 01OL
Size 30
Available 30
Class details
Online
Group 1
Class number 25094
Section 01OL
Size 10
Available 10
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