Language and Education

Pre-requisites: none

Course objectives: Understanding the structure and the function of language in education and their influence on characteristics of education and students’ educational perspective. Understanding the nature of the language learning process. Enabling students to research language in education.

Course description: Theoretical course: Language, thought, culture and reality. Language and its use from different disciplines and perspectives. Spoken and written language. Limited and elaborated language codes. Structure and functions of language in formal education. School languages (language of classes, textbooks, etc). Concept of discourse and approaches to analysis of discourse in education. Notions about the nature of the language learning process in preschool and school period. Theory and practice of the child’s linguistic creativity stimulation. Learning to write and school activities of writing. Styles of student writing. Understanding literacy and conceptual orientations to its development in schools. Practical course: Practice of familiarization with the structure and the function of language in education, with the conceptual trends of language education, training for children’s literature analysis.

Learning Outcomes: Student understands the relation between the use of language in educational context and opportunities for the construction of meaning. He/she is familiar with the notions of the nature of the language learning process. He is capable of doing research of language in education.

Literature/Reading:

• Marjanović, A. i dr. (1990), Dečje jezičke igre, ZUNS, Beograd, str. 29-54.
• Mitrović, M. (2010), Pismenost i obrazovanje: perspektiva Novih studija pismenosti, Filozofski fakultet, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Beograd, str. 123-139, 150-159, 168-171.
• Plut, D. (2003), Udžbenik kao kulturno-potporni sistem, ZUNS: Institut za psihologiju, Filozofski fakultet, Beograd str. 205-208, 227-235.
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• Mitrović, M. (2008). Neke karakteristike govornog i pisanog jezika. Pedagogija, br. 2, str. 183-191.
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• Mitrović, M. (2015). Moć analize jezika časa, Nastava i vaspitanje, vol. 64, br. 3, str. 421-436.
• Marjanović, A. (1990). Dečje jezičke igre. ZUNS: Beograd, 93-173.
• Kristal, D. (1996). Kembrička enciklopedija jezika. Nolit: Beograd, str. 248-255.
• Govor u predškolskoj ustanovi (1998), ZUNS, Beograd, str. 13-74.