Course Syllabus

IDENTIFICATION DETAILS

Title: Degree in Primary Education

Branch of Knowledge: Legal and Social Sciences

Faculty/School: Legal and Social Sciences

Course Subject: English Childrens Literature and Teaching Methods

Type: Optional ECTS Credits: 6

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Year: 4 Code: 7455

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Teaching Period: 7 Semester

Subject: Language Teaching and Learning

Module: Teaching and Disciplinary

Teaching modality: Face-to-face

Language: Spanish

Total number of hours 150

undertaken by pupil:

DESCRIPTION OF THE COURSE

To provide students the necessary knowledge that will allow them to use the English language in their work environment as
teaching professionals in the scope of Primary Education. To train and build skills for students to foster reading and using
Anglo-Saxon childrens literature with their own students.

SKILLS

Basic / General / Transversal Skills

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 Students must prove that they know and understand a study area based on general secondary education.
Although its level relies on advanced textbooks, this study area also includes some aspects implying knowledge at
the forefront of their field of study.

Students must know how to apply their knowledge to their jobs or vocations in a professional way. Students must
also have those skills for the elaboration and defence of principles, and problem solving in their field of study.

Students must have the capacity to gather and interpret relevant information (usually within their field of study) to
deliver judgements including reflections on relevant social, scientific, or ethical topics.

Students must be capable of transmitting information, ideas, problems, and solutions to a specialized and a non-
specialized audience.

Students must have developed those necessary learning skills to pursue postgraduate studies with a high degree
of autonomy.

To develop analytical, synthetic, reflective, critical, theoretical and practical thinking skills.

To develop interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.

Specific Skills

To acquire literary education and be acquainted with childrens literature.

To foster reading and encourage writing.

To fluently read and write in a foreign language.

To select and design teaching materials using English childrens literature resources as well as audiovisual and
print media.

WORK-TIME DISTRIBUTION

CONTACT HOURS REMOTE STUDY HOURS

69 hours 81 hours

OBJECTIVE

To develop an interest in reading as well as English language communication skills, encompassing its different
aspects: grammatical, sociolinguistic, discursive, strategic and sociocultural.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

To recognise the importance of the English language as an extremely useful transnational communication tool to
gain access to other cultures. To identify relevant cultural aspects pertaining to English-speaking countries within
Anglo-Saxon childrens literature with the aim of acquiring the core cultural elements that influence language. To
detect the richness and beauty of English childrens literature. To create a reading habit as a resource to gain
further knowledge on the English language and culture. To gather impressions and criteria by reading and
commenting extracts of specialized texts and literary works in English. To formulate oral and written messages in
English with a minimum fluency and correction so as to communicate effectively. To share ones own ideas using
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 the English language applying informed and critical reasoning. To develop a project on significant and relevant
aspects of the index of subjects using different teaching resources.

INDEX OF SUBJECTS

1.Why read? What to read?

2.An historical map of Childrens English Literature

*Classics in Childrens English Literature of British Origen

*Classics in Childrens English Literature of American Origen

3.Early Childhood Literature

*The Little Engine that Could (Anonymous)

*Traditional Nursery Rhymes, Songs and Poems

*The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter

*The Story of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

*Didactic Approaches

4.Primary Childrens Literature

*The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde

*A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

*Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

*Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

*Didactic Approaches

5.Discovering Values through Childrens Literature

6.Childrens Literature Project

METHODOLOGY/TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES

The methodology will be active, participative and collaborative, based on a communicative approach of English
teaching with face-to-face activities: lectures, in-class practices, class presentations, group dynamics, individual
and group tutoring sessions; and students' independent work: study of theory, performing assignments in virtual
classes, design of class presentations and preparation of in-class activities (readings, information searches,
preparing individual assignments).

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EVALUATION SYSTEM

A continuous evaluation system will be applied. Students' learning process will be assessed based on the
continuous monitoring of the work performed and the acquired knowledge. It will be aimed at the verification of
skills (in the sense of proving to be proficient in something) obtained by students themselves in this course
subject. Therefore, some of the procedures and techniques to be used will be the following: short-answer, long-
answer or developing-answer tests, oral tests (individual, group, work presentations, etc.), assignments and
projects.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Basic bibliography

Materials created ad-hoc with a special focus on this course subject: Coursepack on English Childrens
Literature and Teaching Methods.
*The Little Engine that Could (Anonymous) *Traditional Nursery Rhymes, Songs and Poems *The Tale of Peter
Rabbit by Beatrix Potter *The Story of Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne *The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde *A
Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens *Charlotte's Web by E.B. White *Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard
Bach.

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