Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers
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Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers at Coursera Overview
Duration | 9 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers at Coursera Highlights
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- Beginner Level
- Approx. 9 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers at Coursera Course details
- You are interested in welcoming processes of migrants and refugees? You want to dedicate yourself to teaching lamguage and literacy? The objective of this course is to get to know the simultaneous process of literacy and language learning in the host society for migrated young people and adults.
- The linguistic integration is key for integration in the society. This course offers insight into international migration today and the real linguistic needs of migrated people in the countries of arrival. Furthermore, throughout the course you can learn about teaching methods and tools in language learning and literacy. The focus is on oral competencies, and processes starting from the students? needs and difficulties them and the teaching staff are facing, implementing hands on experience and providing practical solutions supporting your class.
Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers at Coursera Curriculum
Oralpha: Literacy for new citizens, a course for trainers
Presentation of the course
Organisation of the course
Evaluation
About the course certificate
FAQs - General topics
FAQs - Assessments and Certificate
Observations
Presentation of the week
Human migration and mobility: an overview
Borders and languages
Understanding social integration
GLIMER (Governance and the Local Integration of Migrants and Europe?s Refugees)
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Readings
Quiz 1
Literacy to new citizens: Students & teachers
Presentation of the week
Students' expectations and needs
Students' barriers
Plurilingual competence
Teachers' profile
Teachers' barriers
Teaching competences
Activity 1: Expectations and needs: anti-immigration political discourses, stereotypes and its impact
Activity 2: Plurilingual competences: understanding linguistic diversity
Activity 3: Teaching competence: the effects of training in multilingual pedagogies and in migration
Readings
Quiz 2
Literacy methods: theory and practice
Presentation of the week
How to literacy? Methodological bases
Simultaneous learning of literacy and language
Choosing the correct methodology. How to do it?
How to design? A Literacy unit or topic
Oral language learning
Let's deal now with the reading and writing of new words
Activities to practise literacy skills
The final task
Evaluation
The oral skills development in literacy courses. What problems do we have? Interview with Alfons Formariz, an adults teacher
Activity of the week
Bibliography 1
Bibliography 2
Quiz 3
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