PED131 Language Didactics
- ECTS Credits:
- 30
- Responsible department:
- Faculty of Humanities and Education
- Course Leaders:
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- Helen Margrethe Voreland Eikeland
- Lene Cherize Haugland Sirevåg
- Lecture Semester:
- Autumn
- Teaching language:
- Norwegian.
- Duration:
- 2 terms
The course is connected to the following study programs
- Bachelor's Programme in Bilingual Education, Bachelors Programme
Teaching language
Norwegian.Recommended prerequisites
It is recommended that students have completed teacher training or other higher education in their home country and/or have previous teaching experience. A high level of proficiency in oral and written Norwegian is required.
Course contents
The course will enable the student to give good professional and adapted teaching in language and in reading and writing. The student will get a didactic foundation for teaching Norwegian and the first language, and knowledge about assessing different texts. The course emphasises a comparative perspective so that the student can use his/her own knowledge and experience as a basis for teaching. The course will also give the student knowledge about research work. The development of the student’s professional digital skills will be focused on.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge
The student has knowledge about
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Reading and writing theories
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Different methodological approaches to basic reading and writing and skills development
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Reading and writing difficulties
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Theories about reading and writing difficulties
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The development of vocabulary
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Norwegian in a contrastive perspective
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Research methods applied to school and education
Skills
The student has the ability to
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Plan and facilitate reading and writing training
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Facilitate teaching literature and the use of literature as a didactical approach
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Use oral, written and multimedia texts in teaching
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To assess the pupils’ language skills in Norwegian and facilitate for language stimulation and training that enhances language development
General competence
The student
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Is able to plan and implement teaching for pupils with minority languages as background
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Has knowledge about learning Norwegian as a second language, and about the relation between language and learning
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Is able to apply a variety of didactical methods when teaching languages, and reading and writing Norwegian (as well as the native tongue)
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Has knowledge about scientific thinking, methodology and presentation
Examination requirements
Completed and passed 20 days of supervised and assessed practice.
Three compulsory assignments and a practice report must be assessed as a pass.
Teaching methods
The teaching will be based on gatherings, three in the autumn semester and four in the spring semester. Between gatherings at UiA the students will work with subject matter individually and in groups. Central work methods are lectures, seminars, oral presentations, self-study, group discussions and documentation of completed practice activities.
Assignments and approval of three work tasks, one of which must be related to the practice period. Oral presentation after the practice has been completed. Practice report.
The workload is estimated at 800 hours.
Evaluation
The study programme manager, in consultation with the student representative, decides the method of evaluation and whether the courses will have a midterm- or end of term evaluation, see also the Quality System, section 4.1. Information about evaluation method for the course will be posted on Canvas.
Assessment methods and criteria
Oral group examination (50%)
4-hour individual written examination (50%)
Graded assessment.