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EDUP4111: Teaching in Multilingual Classrooms
2026 unit information
This unit provides students with both a foundation and a framework for the effective teaching of English as an additional language within the context of small group teaching and culturally and linguistically diverse primary classrooms. The course will assist students problem solve and make decisions about appropriate group/class strategies through the curriculum in the broad areas of speaking, listening, reading/viewing, and writing. The decisions made will be based upon the integration of current second language acquisition (SLA) theory and more recent theoretical approaches that will lead to a socioculturally informed pedagogy.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Education |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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36 credit points of 3000-level EDUP-coded units |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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EDUP3041 |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Consider and implement knowledge of current educational theory, research and curriculum documents as they relate to teaching English as an additional language or Dialect (EAL/D) students.
- LO2. Demonstrate knowledge of teaching strategies that are responsive to the learning strengths and needs of students from linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- LO3. Critically reflect upon the linguistic and cultural challenges of EAL/D students in the curriculum and design pedagogical strategies to intervene.
- LO4. Use curriculum, assessment and reporting knowledge to design learning sequences and lesson plans.
- LO5. Understand the linguistic elements of English and other languages to explicitly teach into areas of need.
- LO6. Develop an intercultural competence to include teaching methods and materials that celebrate diversity.
- LO7. Demonstrate knowledge of a range of resources, including ICT, that engage students in their learning.
- LO8. Design and implement pedagogic practices that scaffold language learning in engaging ways.
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| Session | MoA ? | Location | Outline ? |
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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