Module EMLM008 for 2021/2
- 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 2021/2 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
Whilst the module’s precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover some or all of the following topics:
- Languages Policy and Guidance: understanding the national languages landscape including recent curriculum developments
- Understanding oracy in languages: teaching listening and speaking skills
- Understanding literacy in languages: teaching reading and writing skills
- Practical approaches in the classroom with a focus on storytelling
- Transition from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3: opportunities and challenges
Assessment of languages in the primary phase: considering informal, formative and summative assessment strategies
- Language learning strategies: helping pupils to learn
- Knowledge about language: teaching about grammar
- Intercultural understanding and its place in the languages classroom
The role of the subject coordinator
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
| Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
|---|---|---|
| 51 | 249 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
| Category | Hours of study time | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 33 | Practical classes and workshops including Peer Teaching and Subject Support Groups |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 8 | Seminar days |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 9 | Pathway activities |
| Scheduled Learning & Teaching activities | 1 | Tutorials with academic tutor |
| Guided independent study | 40 | Reading set texts |
| Guided independent study | 50 | Wider reading |
| Guided independent study | 22 | Web-based activities |
| Guided independent study | 35 | Seminar/workshop preparation |
| Guided independent study | 12 | Peer teaching activity preparation |
| Guided independent study | 30 | Learning support group preparation |
| Guided independent study | 60 | Coursework assignment preparation |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Association for Language Learning website: https://www.all-languages.org.uk/
Ensemble Languages Project: http://www.ensemble-mfl.co.uk/
