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Emergent Literacy - EML1501

Under Graduate Degree Year module NQF level: 5 Credits: 12
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: This module is intended to equip student teachers with the knowledge, skills and techniques of how to teach Emergent Literacy to a Foundation Phase class. This module is going to deepen student knowledge in emergent literacy and the forms in which it manifests itself. Qualifying students will be able to understand the importance of emergent literacy. The student will be able to promote emergent literacy so that they are able to develop the language skills of learners by engaging with theories of language development .and using them to understand different contexts in which teaching and learning is constructed and implemented. They should be able to gather information from different sources and evaluate them as to their suitability to learners and the context of learning. The module will enable student teachers to take ownership of the process of learning of the learners by using self-reflective methodologies that will allow for differentiated teaching.