KOPS1004 Disciplinary language and literacy in teaching (5 cr)

The course introduces students to disciplinary language and literacy in teaching, where the aim is the simultaneous learning of language and content in an integrated manner. The aim is to present different approaches that integrate the teaching and learning of language and content and how the discussions related to them are intertwined with the changes in different socio-political contexts and the field of language studies. The course focuses on teaching language in content-based lessons beyond language lessons and independent of the medium of instruction and students’ linguistic backgrounds. Approaching language and content learning from such a perspective offers new avenues to the development of teaching disciplinary language and literacy practices.

• be familiar with different theoretical and methodological approaches that advocate the subject-specific nature of language and literacy practices,
• understand how content-based teaching and learning challenges current conceptions of language and learning,
• understand how genres and subject-specific ways of using language shape language practices,
• be able to reflect on the relationship between language and content in different pedagogical environments, e.g., immersion, CLIL, Finnish as a second language and L1 teaching, and
• be able to develop tasks and learning modules that pay attention to subject-specific language practices together with colleagues.

Required readings will be announced in the learning environment of the course.