Overview

This topic will introduce pre-service teachers to early language and literacy development in the early childhood and primary school years. The components of language are explored, and pre-service teachers learn how to appraise their own linguistic knowledge using metalanguage, and exploring phonology, morphology, syntax, semantic and pragmatics.A key focus of … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Introduce pre-service teachers to evidence-based pedagogies in language and early literacy development aligning with the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum English Language and Literacy strands and consider how their development is represented within these two frameworks.  
  • Cultivate knowledge of how communication, oral language, speech and early literacy develop in the early childhood and primary school years, including signals for language difficulties and characteristics of language difficulties or disorders. 
  • Evaluate and interpret research-informed models of language development and the components of language across receptive, expressive, spoken and written modalities. 
  • Provide an opportunity for pre-service teachers’ to appraise their own linguistic knowledge through the components of phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics and their relevance to language and literacy development. 

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Assumed knowledge

High level of literacy competency.