| CODE | LHN5009 | ||||||||
| TITLE | ELT7 - Issues in ELT | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Languages and Humanities Education | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit invites intending teachers of English to reflect upon and develop their knowledge and practice of current issues in English language teaching and learning. Various perspectives on current challenges in many of the areas of ELT are offered depending on the context in which teachers conduct their work. Different realities are illustrated to enable the implementation and improvement of English language teaching. This study-unit will adopt a developmental perspective. What happens in the early and primary years has a huge impact on human development and education in later years. Some of the topics of the study-unit are language education policy planning, multilingual education, teacher agency, language mediation, how graphic novels can help to get young people into reading, and relevant research. Study-Unit Aims: This study-unit seeks to familiarise students with a number of current and relevant issues in ELT in Maltese secondary schools. The students will have extended opportunities to reflect on and discuss such issues, making direct links with their own classroom experiences. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Consider and critically review a number of relevant issues in English Language Teaching in Maltese secondary schools. - Read and discuss the relevance of related research and its implications for ELT and second/foreign language acquisition and learning. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Apply their understanding of a number of issues related to ELT in Maltese secondary schools to a number of teaching and learning situations in different school contexts. - Reflect on their professional practice in schools and seek methods, approaches and strategies which increase levels of motivation in the ELT classroom. - Assume responsibility for their own CPD (Continuing Professional Development). Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts: Mifsud, C.L. & Mallia, G. (Eds.). (2000). Ways and measures: Teaching and Assessing Young Learners of English as a Foreign language. Msida, Malta.World Academic, Malta. Supplementary Readings: - Mifsud, CL & Vella, LA. (2022) Early Language Education in Malta pp 461-866 in Schwartz, M, (Ed) Handbook of Early Language Learning, Springer Nature Springer, US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47073-9_29-1 - Dockrell, J.E., Papadopoulos, T.C., Mifsud, C.L., et al (2021). Teaching and learning in a multilingual Europe: findings from a cross-European study. European Journal of Psychology of Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-020-00523-z - Milosevic, T., Dias, P., Mifsud, C., & Tr眉ltzsch-Wijnen, C. (2019). Media Representation of Children鈥檚 Privacy in the Context of the Use of 鈥楽mart Toys鈥� and Commercial Data Collection. Medijske studije/Media Studies, 9(18), 6鈥�25 - Mifsud, C.L. & Vella, L. (2018) Teacher agency and language mediation in two Maltese preschool bilingual classrooms. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 31 (3), 272-288 Routledge DOI: 10.1080/07908318.2018.1504400 - Mifsud, C. L. & Vella, L. (2018) To mix languages or not? Preschool bilingual education in Malta. In M. Schwartz (Ed.) Preschool bilingual education. Agency in interaction between children, teachers and parents (pp. 57-98). Springer USA https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77228-8 - Mifsud, C. L. & Kupiainen (2017) The Internet of Toys and gender. In G. Mascheroni & D. Holloway (Eds.) The Internet of Toys: A report on media and social discourses around young children and IoToys (pp. 39-42). DigiLitEY http://digilitey.eu/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/IoToys-June-2017-reduced.pdf - Mifsud, C. L. & Zaman, B. (2017) Editorial: Young children鈥檚 use of digital media and parental mediation. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 11(3) https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2017-3-xx - Khabbazbashi, N., Khalifa, H., Robinson, M., Ellis, S. & Mifsud, C. (2017). Understanding Language Learning in Malta. Research Notes, Issue 65, pp 3-23. Cambridge English Language Assessment, UK. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Charles L. Mifsud |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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