- Code
- PRD 217
- Name
- Language and Literacy Development I (Primary Education)
- Semester
- 3
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 0.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.00
- ECTS
- 5.00
- Description
-
This course aims at enabling students to understand the ways in which language acquisition skills of primary school children are developed; thus we prepare them for their future profesinon. Throught this course we aim to deal with modern methods and techniques, for an active and interactive teaching, based on the age profile of primary school children. During this course students will be able to provide qualitative teaching, they will develop skills related to the process of communication and the relationship between writing and speech reading.
- Objectives
-
This course presents a critical review of the key areas of speaking, listening, reading and writing experiences of young children. Current studies, educational practice, and teaching materials will be analyzed in relation to various theoretical views of language. Special attention will be placed on the combination of skills related to language.
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Defining “Literacy”: theoretical and practical dimensions. Emergent literacy stage.
- 2
- Key issues in primary education. Essential and critical features of early literacy learning.
- 3
- Oral and written language. Essential early literacy learning strategies.
- 4
- Phonological Awareness, phonemic Awareness. Word – identification strategies.
- 5
- Reading fluency. Reading comprehension.
- 6
- Vocabulary - Promoting vocabulary in early literacy stage.
- 7
- Support for emergent reading. Support for emergent writing. Integrated, content - focused activities.
- 8
- Mid-term exam
- 9
- Print awareness and oral language enhancing strategies.
- 10
- Key findings regarding shared reading. Providing a focus on vocabulary through shared reading.
- 11
- Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Spelling and Literacy
- 12
- Understanding arguments. Deductive and Inductive arguments. Premises and Conclusions.
- 13
- Teacher designed strategies. Purposes and types of teacher designed strategies.
- 14
- Literacy learning beyond the classroom: home-school connections and community based programs.
- 15
- Planning literacy - focused instruction. A teacher's plan.
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Identify criteria for selection of literature for young children and to explore different methods for using literature to enhance communication skills.
- 2
- Identify key components of an integrated program of language and understanding of the line of reasoning of the different methods used in the development and learning experiences for each component.
- 3
- Identify criteria for selection of literature for young children and to explore different methods for using literature to enhance communication skills.
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 30% 30%
- Quizzes
- 1 10% 10%
- Projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 50%
- Final exam percent
- 50%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 3 48
- Off class study hours
- 14 3 42
- Duties
- 0 0 0
- Midterms
- 1 10 10
- Final exam
- 1 15 15
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 115
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 4.60
- ECTS
- 5.00