Program Overview

EML106 Everyday Language and Literacies: Learning and Practice

Subject Description

In this subject, students will develop critical knowledge of English language and literacy as socio-cultural practice. Students will learn how oral language is acquired, and explore the relationships between language, literacy, and literature. Students will conduct, and report on, an investigation into everyday literacy practices of young children with a particular focus on the central role of the picture book in many of these practices. They will explore the features of texts (literary, factual, and multimodal) which support the literacy learning of young children between 0 and 8 years of age, create an original picture book, trial the book, and reflect on the outcomes of these processes in the light of relevant socio-cultural practice literature.

Availability

• Session 2 (60)
• On Campus:
  • Albury-Wodonga Campus
  • Bathurst Campus
  • Dubbo Campus
  • Wagga Wagga Campus

Subject Information

Grading System

• HD/FL

Duration

• One session

School

• School of Education

Incompatible Subjects

• EMC203
• EML110
• EML302

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:

• develop critical knowledge of English language and literacy as socio-cultural practice
• know how oral language is acquired and understand the relationships between language, literacy, and literature
• begin to develop their understandings of transitions (for example, to preschool, to school, to new social contexts) and play, as they relate to literacy learning and everyday language and literacy practices
• be able to demonstrate their understandings of the everyday language and literacy practices of young children and the central role of the picture book in many of these practices
• begin to understand how texts (literary, factual, and multimodal) support the literacy learning of young children between 0 and 8 years of age

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

• English language and literacy as socio-cultural practice
• Oral language acquisition
• Transitions (to preschool, to school, to new social contexts) and play, and how they relate to everyday literacy learning and practice