Managing with Mother Tongue Difficulties
Course code
KAE6047.HR
old course code
KAE6047
Course title in Estonian
Emakeelealaste raskuste ületamine
Course title in English
Managing with Mother Tongue Difficulties
ECTS credits
5.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
Developing readiness for constant cooperation with pupils with native language disorders; developing readiness for continuous learning in looking for different sources of information and giving meaning to the information that gives overview of the essence and reasons of reading and writing disorders and provides effective intervention strategies.
Brief description of the course
The nature of reading and writing difficulties, reasons for the difficulties; reading and writing difficulties in the classification of learning difficulties, relation to the learning difficulties; revelation of reading and writing difficulties in various age groups; detecting reading and writing difficulties; teacher's possibilities to teach children with reading and writing difficulties.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- is able to describe and analyse the difficulties related to the pupils’ native language;
- is aware of the bio-psycho-social factors of the formation of difficulties;
- is able to integrate information from different sources into a uniform body, is aware of the process-centred approach, i.e. the principles of predicting, preventing and overcoming difficulties.
- is able to describe and analyse the difficulties related to the pupils’ native language;
- is aware of the bio-psycho-social factors of the formation of difficulties;
- is able to integrate information from different sources into a uniform body, is aware of the process-centred approach, i.e. the principles of predicting, preventing and overcoming difficulties.
Teacher
Pilvi Kula, PhD
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