College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Primary Modern Foreign Languages Specialism
Module EMLM008 for 2023/4
Module EMLM008 for 2023/4
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
EMLM008: Primary Modern Foreign Languages Specialism
This module descriptor refers to the 2023/4 academic year.
Module Aims
The module will focus on extending the breadth and depth of your understanding of primary education in several directions, in order that you can develop children’s learning in a number of ways. These include:
- gaining a deeper understanding of approaches to language learning in order to understand its place in the curriculum and ways in which it can relate to other subjects;
- focusing on leadership in modern languages to enable you to evaluate and select materials, organise the subject within a school, and support your colleagues’ languages teaching;
- being able to handle intercultural issues with knowledge, tact and confidence;
- being able to teach languages creatively;
- understanding the contexts and strategies of languages learning and be able to incorporate this knowledge into your practice as a teacher;
- nurturing your development as a reflective and autonomous professional practitioner who is able to identify strengths and areas for development in your subject knowledge and pedagogy, through evaluating current professional practice in relationship to developments in research and curriculum theory;
On successfully completing the programme you will be able to: | |
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Module-Specific Skills | 1. identify and evaluate educational concepts and issues related to the teaching of languages and engage in critical debate about current educational issues in the teaching of languages drawing on evidence from theory, research and practice; 2. recognise pupils learning needs in languages and interpret these learning needs in order to plan, teach, assess and evaluate lessons and schemes of work; 3. demonstrate confident academic and pedagogic subject knowledge to teach languages in Key Stage 2; 4. demonstrate secure understanding of the statutory requirements and/or non-statutory guidance for languages; |
Discipline-Specific Skills | 5. critically evaluate the relevance of educational theory to practice; 6. synthesise relevant educational literature in support of an argument; 7. use appropriate technologies for data handling and writing in education; 8. present data and findings in a form appropriate in educational studies; 9. use research data in support of an argument in education; |
Personal and Key Skills | 10. manage your own learning development; 11. learn effectively and be aware of your own learning strategies; 12. express ideas and opinions, with confidence and clarity, to a variety of audiences for a variety of purposes; 13. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution. |