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Critically evaluate and synthesize theoretical knowledge, professional teaching strategies and related resources appropriate to supporting oral language development.
Critically evaluate, craft and justify teaching and assessment approaches and strategies to foster oral language development.
Self-evaluate and set goals to improve your professional and personal oral language capabilities.
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Your learning experiences in this unit will invite you to consider, conceptualise and make connections between - the early development of oral language, development of children's vocabulary knowledge, expressive and receptive modes, the impact of language variation, Halliday's functional model of language use, the Alphabetic Principle, phonological awareness, phonemic awareness and phonics, the relationship between oral language choices, genre and context, teaching strategies and approaches fostering oral language development, curriculum supports and mandated requirements for teaching in this area, and initial concepts for planning, teaching and assessing oral language development.