ETL713 - Learning Global English in Diverse Social Contexts
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Michiko Weinmann |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | ECL773 |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week Approximately 6-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
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:Study school program at Burwood (Melbourne) campus, for online enrolled students subject to demand Campus based version subject to demand |
Content
This unit aims to help students understand the local and global context in which their learners study the English language and to address questions relating to how social contexts influence language learners and learning.
Topics to be addressed in this unit include: the nature of power relationships and the global use of English and their interaction with class, gender, race and ethnicity; the concepts of identity, globalisation, class, gender, race and ethnicity particularly in relation to education and work and their meaning in terms of personal and classroom experience; the nature of culture and the concepts of cultural change, ideology and schooling; awareness of learners - cultures and/or the target culture; what questions about culture do teachers have, and what do teachers do with cultural information when they have it?; immigration policies globally and their impact on individuals, groups and society; institutional responses to immigration and bilingualism; Language planning and language policy; and presuppositions of one's own culture and its effects on life and work in a multicultural society.
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 | Describe the range and variety of cultural and social influences on the learning and teaching of language in both formal and informal settings, and consider the implications of these influences for language teaching in Australia and overseas | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO2 | Understand the global role of English and the implications of this for its pragmatics, linguistic forms and use | GLO2: Communication |
ULO3 | Appraise the dynamics of class, gender and race in relation to the expectations and outcomes of language education | GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO4 | Use the concept of power to analyse what shapes language education | GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO5 | Relate the process of developing language policy to the language teaching policy in the country in which you teach | GLO3: Digital literacy GLO8: Global citizenship |
ULO6 | Reflect on the social features of language, gender, race, ethnicity as they relate to learners and teachers of language in specific contexts, and outline the connection between language, thought and culture | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Learning log, topics 1-2 | 1250 words | 25% | Week 6 |
Assessment 2 - Essay | 2250 words | 45% | Week 10 |
Assessment 3 - Learning log, topics 3-9 | 1500 words | 30% | Week 11 |
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 ETL713 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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