Handbook - Teacher Language Awareness

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Overview

In this course, you will update and deepen your skills as a language and literacy teacher in the following areas: the nature of language as a phenomenon; language form, meaning and use; language analysis at sentence and supra-sentential levels, oracy and literacy and differences and similarities between spoken and written … For more content click the Read More button below. You will be introduced to these ideas through a variety of texts and activity types and referring to a range of recent and seminal scholarly and practitioner voices within the literature in this area.

In this course, you will update and deepen your skills as a language and literacy teacher in the following areas: the nature of language as a phenomenon; language form, meaning and use; language analysis at sentence and supra-sentential levels, oracy and literacy and differences and similarities between spoken and written forms of language; first and second language acquisition and implications for teaching; an overview of the structural grammar of English, focusing on the verb phrase (tense and aspect), modality, and cohesion; scholarship of teacher language awareness.

You will be introduced to these ideas through a variety of texts and activity types and referring to a range of recent and seminal scholarly and practitioner voices within the literature in this area.

Conditions for Enrolment

Prerequisite: Enrolment in a postgraduate Education, Educational Leadership program, or Master of Teaching (Secondary). Master of Teaching (Secondary) students must have completed EDST6761 or EDST6765

Course Outline

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EDST5150 Course Outline

Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$836
Domestic Students	$3360
International Students	$4560

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