Learning Area English Additional 2 (EDUC91303)

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

Teacher Candidates are supported to progress their knowledge about the English language and its relationship to effective communication. They also progress 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 progress their engagement 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 the critical review of research and the analysis of pedagogical strategies.