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EDPJ5025: Bilingual Education
2024 unit information
This unit introduces and explores principles and issues surrounding bilingual education. Different models of bilingual education are introduced and issues surrounding the aims, rationale, and goals of these models are explored. Issues surrounding bilingual education theory, the teacher in bilingual settings, family and community involvement in bilingual education, bilingualism and biliteracy, and issues of power and identify are examined. The unit focuses on current research surrounding bilingual education. This unit is suited to students who teach in bilingual or immersion contexts, and to those more generally interested in catering for bilingual and multilingual students in all settings.
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Education
| Code | EDPJ5025 |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate understandings about the bilingual context
- LO2. Demonstrate understandings about the goals of bilingual education
- LO3. Demonstrate understandings about bilingualism and biliteracy
- LO4. Demonstrate understandings about models of practice
- LO5. Demonstrate understandings about language planning and policy
- LO6. Demonstrate understandings about teacher, parent and community issues
- LO7. Demonstrate understandings about classroom materials and resources
- LO8. Demonstrate understandings about assessment of programs
- LO9. Demonstrate understandings about politics and power issues
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