OJUP1021 Formal Language Development (5 cr)
Description
Formal Language Development explores how younger learners can be introduced to and work with structural and formal language conventions and considerations. This course includes how different linguistic features can be presented in a child-friendly manner, how teachers can give evaluate the developing language of young learners and provide constructive feedback to support language development as well as the positive self-image of students as language learners and users. This course also encourages the critical comparison of language structures, vocabulary and key features (inc. sounds) across different languages.
Competence development:
This course promotes pedagogical competence through the development of practical activities based on linguistic knowledge, communicative and interactional competence through the critical consideration of age appropriate language education, cultural competence through the critical comparison of languages, language forms and expressions, and intellectual competence through the development of linguistic knowledge and understanding.
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to:
- explain basic linguistic features and structures of English
- create activities that introduce young learners to formal aspects of language development
- recognize how focus on accuracy, complexity or fluency in language are developed through different kinds of activities
- be able to use different approaches to the development of different kinds of written and spoken texts
- use different approaches to language evaluation and feedback for different aged learners
- independently develop their own foreign or additional language skills and understanding
Study materials
Are available in the Moodle learning platform for the course.
Cotterall, S. The Study Skills Handbook,
Hinkel, E. (2016). Teaching English Grammar to Speakers of Other Languages. Routledge. ISBN-10: 113890693X • ISBN-13: 978-1138906938.
Larsen-Freeman, D. (2003). Teaching language: From grammar to grammaring. Heinle & Heinle Pub.