Course overview
This course aims to develop students' understanding and use of English grammar to teach a range of text types across academic disciplines and Year Level curricula. More particularly, it equips students with knowledge of how grammar relates to meaning making and literacy, and how different academic disciplines use grammar to make specialised meanings for their own purposes. Students will also learn how to develop language-aware pedagogical strategies, resources and assessments relevant and effective in promoting learning across academic disciplines and the curriculum.
- Approaches to Grammar and the Curriculum
- Levels of Analysis and Parts of Speech
- Teaching Grammar Traditionally
- Language to Express and Connect Ideas
- Language to Interact with Others
- Language to Create Cohesive Texts
- A Metalinguistic Framework
- Grammar in Three Dimensional Learning
- Grammar Across Academic Texts
- Assessing Grammar
Course learning outcomes
- Recognise relationships between English language grammar and meaning making, and explain the importance of teaching grammar explicitly and connecting it to meaning making across the curriculum
- Explain the functions of grammatical features and describe how context and purpose influence language choices in different genres (text types)
- Apply a range of pedagogical strategies and frameworks to teach grammar relevant to different academic disciplines and across Year Level curricula, including various techniques for gathering, assessing and reflecting on evidence of student learning
Availability
Class details
Magill
Group 1
Class number 66447
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Online
Group 1
Class number 60153
Section 01OL
Size 10
Available 10
Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 66525
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
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