Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description This module builds on students’ language proficiency developed in Gaeilge modules in the first and second years of this programme and also on their knowledge of language learning and assessment tools in post-primary pupil contexts. This module places a particular emphasis on language awareness and language learner error correction. Students will experience an inductive approach to the teaching of specific linguistic aspects. Students will critically analyse and integrate this new knowledge of pedagogy and assessment into their professional language classroom practice in post-primary settings. This module will focus on the role of language awareness in students’ own experience as language learners at third level. Students will collaborate with one another to develop methods which will allow them to analyse this experience enhancing their own understanding and application of language learning theory. This module will develop students’ knowledge and understanding of Irish phonologicial awareness. As members of a team, students will develop methods to improve oral Irish language skills by analysing their own oral language learner corpora. In this module, students will collaborate to develop an Irish language learner self-assessment tool to evaluate a specific aspect of their oral Irish skills. This will enable the learners to accomplish their oral language learning goal and will track data to measure their success in fulfilling this learning goal. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Reflect on and interrogate specific aspects of their oral language skills. 2. Understand the orthography and decoding of Irish at a phonemic and a morphemic level. 3. Identify, record and analyse the most common oral language errors made by Irish language learners. 4. Use the European Portfolio of languages as a tool for developing language learner awareness and autonomy. 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the sequential learning milestones in the orthography of Irish and the similarities between written Irish and English. 6. Develop an Irish language learner self-assessment tool to evaluate a specific aspect of their oral Irish skills. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Indicative Content and Learning Activities Common European Framework for Languages; Self-Assessment in language learning at third level; The development of oral language skills; Orthography and decoding of Irish at a phonemic and a morphemic level Minority language learning; Autonomous learning and self-reflection; The affordances of technology for the development of oral language development; The development and use of language learner corpora; Development of Irish language learner self-assessment tool to evaluate a specific aspect of their oral Irish skills; Developing critical literary skills. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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