Learning Area English Additional 1 (EDUC91302)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject introduces Teacher Candidates to the language, literature and literacy demands of teaching and learning English in the context of Australian/Victorian Curricula and Frameworks. This subject will support students to understand how language, literature and literacy form an integrating framework of disciplinary knowledge and focus on developing students’ knowledge, understanding and skills about the nature of English education for all secondary school students (Years 7-12).  

Teacher Candidates are supported to develop their knowledge about the English language and its relationship to effective communication. They also develop their understanding of literature, including the factors that impact understanding, appreciating, responding to, analysing and creating a diversity of texts. Additionally, Teacher Candidates are supported to engage with literacies, and to understand the theory and practice that underpin expanding repertoires of communication. 

The assessment tasks in this subject provide a pathway for the development of Teacher Candidates’ understanding of the interrelationship between language, literature and literacy in the discipline of English through analysis and reflection activities. 

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of this subject, Teacher Candidates should be able to: 

  • Critically reflect on research into how students learn through an emerging understanding of English curriculum and theory and implications for effective teaching practice.
  • Design achievable English learning goals, lesson plans and learning sequences, integrating knowledge of student learning, curriculum, assessment, and reporting.
  • Demonstrate strong English subject and pedagogical content knowledge that meets the specific needs of students from diverse backgrounds and promotes participation and inclusion of all students in their learning.
  • Select and integrate English teaching strategies and resources, including ICT, to meet the specific needs of students from diverse backgrounds, and to engage students in their learning.

Generic skills

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

  • Clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice.
  • Critical and creative thinking.
  • Creativity and innovation.
  • Learning to learn and metacognition.
  • Responsiveness to a changing knowledge base.
  • Reflection for continuous improvement.
  • Linking theory and practice.
  • Inquiry and research.

Last updated: 4 March 2025