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| Honours |
Year module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 24 |
| Module presented in English |
Module presented online |
| Purpose: The purpose of this module is to equip students, including language teachers and other language professionals, with an informed and critical understanding of the key issues, theoretical trends and research practices within Applied Linguistics, as these relate to domains of reading and writing. Students who emerge as competent from this module will gain a deeper understanding of the crucial role that reading and writing play in language, literacy and academic development, especially in an additional language. Specifically, they will be equipped with knowledge of the developmental aspects of reading and writing, the skills and knowledge that underlie reading and writing and the practices that best promote their development. In a similar manner. vocabulary will be examined by students as a subtheme that straddles both reading and writing. Students will be able to connect their understanding of reading, writing and vocabulary to South Africaﾒs literacy crisis and further conceptualize its importance in the learning contexts of the real world. The module provides students with evidence-based additional language learning and teaching principles and techniques to promote reading and writing in the AL classroom with the capacity to promote and implement a culture of reflective professionalism and best practice in additional language learning and teaching within a multilingual society.
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