Didactics of Mother Tongue II
Course code
KAL7136.HR
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Emakeeledidaktika II
Course title in English
Didactics of Mother Tongue II
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
Examination
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Anne Uusen (language of instruction:Estonian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
- To support the development of a theoretical background on the principles of teaching writing and reading.
- To provide a basis for acquiring practical guides and specific techniques for developing students' writing and reading skills.
- Guide to make sense of what, why, when and how to teach. The aim is the students' own activity in linking theory and practice and making choices / conclusions.
- To create opportunities for the development of knowledge for work with students with reading and writing difficulties and speech problems in the mother tongue class.
- Develop a willingness to adapt teaching to the needs of the learner.
- To provide a basis for acquiring practical guides and specific techniques for developing students' writing and reading skills.
- Guide to make sense of what, why, when and how to teach. The aim is the students' own activity in linking theory and practice and making choices / conclusions.
- To create opportunities for the development of knowledge for work with students with reading and writing difficulties and speech problems in the mother tongue class.
- Develop a willingness to adapt teaching to the needs of the learner.
Brief description of the course
Definitions and concept of writing. Objectives and types of text. Writing teaching methods, different approaches to writing. A teaching method based on the writing process. Teaching stationery. Teaching grammar and spelling openly and covertly. Written communicative activities / tasks in the classroom. Text types and language teaching topics covered in basic school I and II, their teaching based on the principles of the new curriculum. Use of newspapers and other mass media in teaching the mother tongue. Definitions of reading and the concept of reading, the nature of reading. Principles of teaching reading. Key reading teaching strategies. Literature-oriented lesson in 5th and 6th grade. The nature of reading and writing difficulties, advice, recommendations.
Throughout: Everyday and logical use of various digital tools and smart devices in teaching writing and reading.
Throughout: Everyday and logical use of various digital tools and smart devices in teaching writing and reading.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has a personal belief in an effective approach to teaching writing and mother tongue in general;
- is able to create writing tasks with a script based on a text, communication situation or topic;
- uses creativity, own digital competences and the possibilities of information technology tools to promote students' mother tongue skills;
- is able to combine partial skills of linguistic communication, grammar and literary material for a mother tongue lesson based on the principles of integrity and subject integration;
- is able to notice reading and writing difficulties and speech problems;
- is able to adapt teaching to students with language learning difficulties.
- has a personal belief in an effective approach to teaching writing and mother tongue in general;
- is able to create writing tasks with a script based on a text, communication situation or topic;
- uses creativity, own digital competences and the possibilities of information technology tools to promote students' mother tongue skills;
- is able to combine partial skills of linguistic communication, grammar and literary material for a mother tongue lesson based on the principles of integrity and subject integration;
- is able to notice reading and writing difficulties and speech problems;
- is able to adapt teaching to students with language learning difficulties.
Teacher
Anne Uusen
Prerequisite course 1
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