ECL210 - Multiliterate Learners in Early Years Environments
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Sarah Ohi |
Cohort rule: | This unit is only available to students enrolled in E200, E359 |
Previously: | Language and Literacy: The Early Years |
Prerequisite: | Students enrolled in course E359 must have passed ECL101 |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | Nil |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week 1 x 1-hour on-campus lecture per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:*Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus)
E359 accelerated cohorts: on-campus and online learning activities available during ETP300 placement. Learning experiences are also via the unit site |
Content
This is the second in a four-unit sequence within the Bachelor of Education (Primary) degree designed to prepare primary school teachers of literacy and English in the information age. This unit examines the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing/creating print, digital and multimodal texts in the early years of schooling (Prep-2). Through fieldwork in young learners’ homes and schools, and engagement with theoretical frameworks, students research the needs of diverse young literacy learners and contemporary literacy and English teaching practices in the early years of schooling. Students engage with a variety of pedagogical and assessment approaches and explore a range of literacies encountered by young learners including visual and digital literacies. Reflection on personal learning and performance is a core aspect of the unit.
Learning Outcomes
ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
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ULO1 | Demonstrate discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities in the areas of child development, language, literature and literacy in the early years | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Describe and keep accurate records of early years learners' language and literacy abilities based on an analysis of the findings from a range of administered language and literacy assessment tools | GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO3 | Demonstrate familiarity with relevant English, language, literature and literacy curriculum statements, policies, materials and programs that are specific to early years learners | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO4 | Explore and compare pedagogical approaches that support inclusive participation for early years learners', language, reading, writing and text creation development through engaging directly with early years literacy teaching environments | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO5 | Work with peers to critique early years digital language and literacy resources and to develop a multimodal presentation | GLO3: Digital literacy GLO7: Teamwork |
ULO6 | Engage with early years learners, teachers and parents to investigate diverse types of language and literacy knowledge that young learners bring to school from their home and community environments | GLO2: Communication |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Engagement with an Early Years learner | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 2 (Group) - Group Multimodal Presentation | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Information not yet available |
Assessment 3 - Engagement with an Early Years teaching program | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Information not yet available |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ECL210 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.
Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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