College of Social Sciences and International Studies
Primary Modern Foreign Languages Specialism
Module EMLM008 for 2021/2
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 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: | |
|---|---|
| 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. work productively in different kinds of teams (formal, informal, project based, committee based etc.); and 14. think creatively about the main features of a given problem and develop strategies for its resolution. |
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/
