EDUC373 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bilingual Education, Variation In Australian English, Multilingualism
15 Oct 2018
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Looking at language and literacy in schools from an critical pluralistic inclusive perspective. A look at all languages as equal, with unifying features. Social justice issues in access to school literacies, globally and within our own classrooms. Practical classroom based (eald) strategies across the curriculum. Assessment 1 essay due 14th september (friday wk 7) Literacy uency (eng) in general australian population is at (average) age 14. Bilingual students feel their language abilities unrecognised, their perspectives under utilised. Make limited connections between their personal and professional identities. Speak up in tutorials, offer perspectives, personal experience. How we see language, and what we believe about. The language learning needed for lbote kids. The babel tower as symbol of unity and common descent. Globally vast range of bilingual people (non native speakers of english) and complex language communities, status issues, discrimination, language rights. Language valid within a particular society (in its home, it is a language of the highest cultural civilisation)
