Course code

KAL7026.HR

old course code

KAL7026

Course title in Estonian

Emakeeledidaktika II

Course title in English

Didactics of Mother Tongue II

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

Support forming a theoretical background for the principles of teaching reading. Create a basis for the acquisition of practical instructions and particular methods of development of pupils’ writing and reading skills. Direct to making sense what, why, when and how to teach.
The objective is the student's activeness in connecting theory to practice and making choices/conclusions.

Brief description of the course

The concept of reading, essence of reading. The principles of teaching reading. The main strategies of teaching reading. The concept of writing. The objectives of writing and types of text. The methods of teaching writing, different approaches to writing. Teaching based on the process of writing, i.e. process writing. Teaching grammar openly and in a hidden form. Written communicative activities in the lesson. Types of text and language topics treated on the first and second level of basic school, teaching those according to the principles of the new curriculum. Usage of newspapers and other means of mass media in teaching mother tongue.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- has a personal conviction about working approach to teaching writing and reading;
- is able to compose writing exercises with scenario from a text, communication situation or topic;
- can use creativity to stimulate pupils’ interest in reading and reading activeness;
- is familiar with verbal communication subskills, are able to associate grammar with literary subject matter proceeding from the principle of integral language.

Teacher

Dots A. Uusen

Prerequisite course 1

Didactics of Mother Tongue I (KAL7025.HR)

Study programmes containing that course

Primary School Teacher (KAKLI/14.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/15.HR)
Primary School Teacher (KAKLI/13.HR)
Primary School Teacher (KAKLI/12.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/14.HR)
Primary School Teacher (KAKLI/11.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/13.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/12.HR)
Primary School Teacher (KAKLI/10.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/09.HR)
Special Education (KAEPB/00.HR)