english essay

This assessment task requires you to draw upon the learning materials (podcasts, readings, and activities) from the first module of this unit, in order to articulate your understanding of language and literacy development as applied to the primary school context. This understanding is foundational for your success in planning, teaching, and evaluating learning in English.

The purpose of this task is for you to work towards achieving the first learning outcome, which is to demonstrate and communicate an understanding of the development and theory of language, literature and literacy throughout the primary years of schooling.

You are to write a 2000-word persuasive essay addressing the following:

What is the most relevant theory/model for addressing 21st century literacy demands? Illustrate your response with examples of classroom practices consistent with this theory/model.

You will need to draw on resources from the weekly materials (podcasts, readings, and activities), and appropriate scholarly literature that you have sourced independently from online Education journals accessed through the Swinburne Library, to inform your argument and illustrations of practice. Your essay is to be written in third person.

Your essay will need:

· A clear introduction in which you introduce both the topic and the structure of your essay.

· A series of paragraphs making up the body of your essay in which you develop a persuasive argument for the particular theory/model you have selected. The body of the essay will also include examples of classroom practice. This series of paragraphs must build the argument to a logical and reasoned conclusion.

· A conclusion in which you reiterate and sum up your argument. The conclusion must not simply restate the introduction.

1. Knowledge of literacy development

2. Understanding of theories/models of literacy development, and relevant classroom practices.

3. Format and structure of essay, including conventions of academic English and capacity to argue persuasively.

4. Academic research, including APA referencing

TO BE ABLE TO PASS MUST FOLLOW

You have insightfully identified the literacy demands of the 21st century.

You present a persuasive argument for a particular theory/model to address 21st century literacy demands. The argument is sound, logical and well-supported in terms of the use of facts and evidence to support or refute claims. The argument is free from ambiguity and contradiction.

The illustrations of practice that you provide to support your claims about your chosen theory/model represent relevant, innovative ways of teaching English to meet the literacy demands of the 21st century.

You provide relevant, scholarly, contemporary, evidence to support your argument demonstrating familiarity with the current field of research including references drawn from the learning materials for the unit and those sourced independently.

Effective language use is a key feature of the paper, as is purposeful and deliberate adherence to the conventions of written English.