Exploring Children's Communication, Language and Literacy (X6621)

15 credits, Level 4

Autumn teaching

On this module, you’ll explore theories and approaches to language acquisition and examine the role of parents in language development.

You’ll follow key stages in a child’s journey toward literacy, including:

• mark-making
• phonics
• reading comprehension
• enjoyment of reading and writing
• becoming accomplished readers and writers.

Children’s literature will play a central role, and you’ll explore high-quality texts and how they can be used to enhance learning.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 47 hours of contact time and about 103 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2024/25. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.