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EDMT5612: Languages Curriculum 1 (Additional)
2024 unit information
This unit is designed for pre-service language teachers with an additional language other than English. The unit will continue to build pre-service language teachers' awareness, skills and understandings in languages education, to guide and prepare them for their future language teaching. Students will gain broad understandings about the nature and scope of languages education in the NSW context, about traditional and more contemporary and innovative classroom practices and particular aspects of policy and NESA documentation.
Unit details and rules
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Education
| Code | EDMT5612 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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EDMT5611 |
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None |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. demonstrate knowledge of the place, context, and role of the teaching of the additional language at both state and national levels by creating a "profile" document which should provide an overview of where the language is taught, which teacher groups support the teaching and learning of this language, useful resources such as human resources, texts, websites etc
- LO2. demonstrate knowledge of theoretical underpinnings of the contemporary intercultural pedagogies in Australian languages education as well as knowledge of students' different approaches to learning especially if they are self-directed autonomous learners
- LO3. demonstrate a capacity to identify and articulate clear and appropriate learning goals in lesson preparation for the additional language, the capacity to select and organise subject/content in logical, sequential and structured ways to address student learning outcomes, and a knowledge of a range of appropriate and engaging resources and materials to support students' learning
- LO4. demonstrate strategies employed to maintain skills and proficiencies in the additional target language in a portfolio, commenting on how this impacts on future classes, particularly in regard to the AFMLTA's (2005) "Professional Standards for Accomplished Teaching of Languages and Cultures", along with a knowledge of the available professional development opportunities and the importance of personal planning to ongoing professional growth.
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