Description : The aim of the course is to bring out the use of language, regarding the communicative context and the process we follow in order to construct and understand the meaning of texts.
Also to help students realise that the speech and the communicative circumstances elaborate different shapes of morphology and syntax.
This kind of awareness will aid the future teachers of primary education to analyse and create various texts, apply and evaluate related linguistic activities, to reinforce the usage of written texts as far as the children are concerned and finally to adjust their way of teaching to the special conditions that characterise their classes,( such as dealing with children who are non native speakers or have a less-favourable socio-economic background.
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
● Recognise and analyze several types of oral and written texts.
● Distinguish the speech and language indicators that characterise the oral and the written texts.
● Recognise the elements of the coherence, the cohesion, the way that information is organised and the purpose it is used, the text linguistics.
● Identify the different types of texts, based on their textual and grammatical features.
● Apply the principles of text - linguistics while carrying out literacy practices in Kindergarten.
Outline : ● Language and text: linguistic and textual approaches.
● Written and oral speech and language.
● Textuality and its mechanisms.
● Organising Information
● Intentionality.
● Intertextuality.
● Text genres
● Kindergarten teaching approaches.