EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy Essay 2 – Australia.

Subject Code & Title :- EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy
Assignment Type :- Essay 2
Word/time limit: 1000 (+/- 10%)
Weighting: 20%
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EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy Essay 2 – Australia.

Assignment overview :-
Supporting language development is one of the most critical roles for educators in both early childhood and primary settings. In order for teachers to provide effective support it is important that they have a thorough knowledge and understanding of the components of language the stages of language development and the underlying theoretical perspectives that explain the processes of language acquisition.

This assignment will enable you to demonstrate your knowledge in all of these areas. It will also provide an opportunity for you to develop your written communication skills and ability to structure information in the form of an expository essay. Your essay should include a minimum of 5 references made to scholarly sources the Early Years Learning Frame work or the Australian Curriculum, and other relevant sources.

EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy Essay 2 – Australia.

This assignment supports unit learning outcomes 1 and 4. 
Assignment details :-
In this essay you are required to address the following:
Describe and discuss children’s oral language development using relevant theoretical perspectives and references to support your statements and discussion.
A tip: When planning for the components of your essay, you can consider including the following:
i. the components of language development (i.e. phonological syntactic semantic and pragmatic development)
ii. a theory that explains childrens oral language development from the nature perspective
iii. a theory that explains children’s oral language from the nurture perspective.

Your essay should include the following sections:

Section 1: Introduction
a.Introduce the topic.
b. Identify the key terms you that will address in the essay.
c. Include a thesis statement that outlines the way you will respond to the question you are required to describe and discuss for this essay.

EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy Essay 2 – Australia.

Section 2: Body of the essay 
1.The body of the essay will consist of a series of paragraphs through which you will describe the process of language development and discuss the influence of nature and nurture.
2. Each paragraph should begin with a topic sentence that introduces the main idea or theme of that paragraph. Typically you would then support this topic sentence with research-based evidence.
3. Carefully consider how many issues you are going to cover, and how these issues are related to each other and answer the essay question.
4. Make sure you write in the third person only, and that you develop a detailed explanation across the body of the essay with well-reasoned points.
5.Try and keep to one topic per paragraph and keep in mind the word count.

Section 3: Conclusion 
1. Summarise the information provided in the essay.
2. Make one final statement about the roles of nature and nurture in language development.

Take note : 
While you will have personal views on this topic this assignment requires you to define and explain from an informed perspective.This means that your work should be supported by evidence that you have found from scholarly sources a relevant curriculum and other relevant sources. Such evidence should help you to construct and validate your descriptions and discussion points.

As stated earlier your essay should include at least 5 references and it must be properly referenced with in-text citations and a reference list using the APA style. Note that the reference list will not be included in the word count.

Throughout your teaching journey, you will be required to use your relevant National and/or State or Territory Curriculum.To help you build capability in this area, and to help further prepare you for placements here at Swinburne Online we allow you to choose whether you would like to use the relevant National and/or State or Territory Curriculum in your assignments. For further information specific to your assignments for this specific unit please seek advice from your eLAs and/or your Unit Coordinator.

Supporting resources :
The following resources will assist you with completing this assignment:  
1.Review the ‘Essay writing’ area of the Academic writing and presenting  (Links to an external site.)section in the Study Resources section of the Student Hub.The Student Hub contains a wide range of useful Study resources (Links to an external site. including guides on Exams and assignments (Links to an external site.) and Referencing (Links to an external site.) (this includes guidelines on how to cite and reference ACARA and EYLF).

Preparing your essay
You are strongly advised to engage with all learning materials and resources provided in Weeks 1–5. It is also imperative to participate in the collaborative activities as these will help you build your under standing of the key concepts and theories related to the essay and practice and develop your writing and referencing skills.

The essay writing guide section of the Student Hub contains references to support you in planning structuring writing and referencing essay assignments:

a. The ‘Essay planning and structure infographic’ in the Essay writing (Links to an external site.) section of the Study resources highlights the Topic sentence Evidence Explanations and Linking sentence (TEEL) approach to structuring paragraphs.  
b.The ‘Understanding word limits info graphic’ in the Essay writing (Links to an external site. section of the Study resources shows how to distribute the number of words to each section of the essay in order to fulfil the allocated word limit of an essay.

Submission details overview :-
This assignment will be submitted through Canvas. When you are ready to submit your assignment select the ‘Start Assignment’ button at the top of this page. You will be taken to the ‘File Upload’ tab where you can choose your file or submit your URL.

Please note: When you submit your assignment through Canvas you are also submitting the assignment through Turnitin which is a text-matching service that compares your work with an international database of information sources. You will need to agree to using it. 

Once you have submitted your assignment select Submission Details on the right of your screen to view your originality report if you haven’t already done so.

EDU10002 Understanding Language And Literacy Essay 2 – Australia.

Please allow a 24-hour turnaround for an originality report to be generated. See the Turnitin originality report area of the Academic practice page in the Study Resources section of the Student Hub for several guides to assist with the submission process. Re submissions after the due date without prior approval from your Unit Coordinator may not be marked.

Assignment support
Don’t forget that in addition to your eLAs who provide discipline-specific content advice you can access the 24/7 draft writing service from Studio sity.
If you need assistance with academic feedback on a draft of your assignment task see Assignment support: Studiosity.