Language learners, learning and teaching (P02593)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : EDU-P-P02593

Individual session will interweave the exploration of specific aspects of participants’ approach to learning, teaching and assessment by focusing on the ways in which perspectives on learning and teaching can inform practice.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : The core books (marked in bold in the indicative reading list) should be purchased.

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Education, (The Moray House School of Education, Schedule C)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

Successful completion of the course will allow participants to:

• gain a clear overview of their current conceptions of language learning, teaching and assessment
• develop skills in reporting on learning/teaching activities and progress in pupils’ learning and development
• analyse the strengths and limitations of differing representations of learning, teaching and assessment
• consider the challenges inherent in embedding research perspectives on learning and teaching in practice
• be critically aware of strategies which enhance learning and of the pupil/student’s perspective on learning, teaching and assessment
• consider how goals, subject content, teaching, learning and assessment activities can be appropriately aligned and pupil learning be advanced

Assessment Information

Participants will be required to produce an assignment of approximately 4000 words in which they either critically analyse current research perspectives on learning and teaching or they connect current research perspectives on learning and teaching to their own practice. Participants will be offered suggested topics / questions for the assignment but will also be able to negotiate with course tutors and identify specific topics or areas of investigation which interest them.