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Learning Area Languages 1 (EDUC90453)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject introduces Teacher Candidates to the theory and practice of teaching Languages. With an emphasis on the nature of Languages education within Australian schools, and the Victorian education system and curriculum in particular, this subject examines the needs of language learners in the middle and senior years of schooling. Beginning with a theoretical foundation based on contemporary research in second language education, the fundamental question of how languages are taught will be introduced and discussed on the grounds of a communicative framework for language teaching and learning. The subject then focuses on practical implications related to planning for, developing, and assessing learners’ communicative competence together with intercultural understanding and awareness. The subject also includes a focus on the nature of language, multimodal text types, the use of ICT and number knowledge.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject teacher candidates should be able to:

 

Graduate Standards refers to the Graduate-level Australian Professional Standards for Teachers.

  • Begin to critically reflect on research into how students learn and understand the concepts, substance, structure and implications for effective teaching practice in Languages education, including the creation of effective learning environment (Graduate Standards 1.2 & 2.1)
  • Understand how to design lesson plans and learning sequences in Languages, using knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment, reporting as well as effective teaching resources (Graduate Standards 2.2, 2.3 & 3.2)
  • Understand how to set learning goals that provide achievable challenges for Languages students of varying abilities and characteristics (Graduate Standard 3.1)
  • Identify assessment strategies including formal and informal diagnostic, formative and summative approaches to assess and to support Languages students’ learning (Graduate Standards 5.1 & 5.4)

Generic skills

This subject will develop the following set of key transferable skills:

  • Clinical reasoning and thinking
  • Problem solving
  • Evidence based decision making
  • Creativity and innovation
  • Teamwork and professional collaboration
  • Learning to learn and metacognition
  • Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base
  • Reflection for continuous improvement
  • Linking theory and practice
  • Inquiry and research
  • Active and participatory citizenship

Last updated: 10 February 2024