7108.08 - Mother Tongue
Course number
7108.08
Title
Mother Tongue
ECTS
7.5
Purpose
The students will gain a clear understanding of
• children’s linguistic development
• phonetics
• morphology
• functional grammar
• linguistic diversity
• the practical application of theoretical knowledge, including how to help children in their linguistic development.
• the development of linguistic competence: How children learn to read, understand what they read, and how difficulties in reading and writing can be detected
• the development of writing and spelling, as well as the relationship between reading and writing
• the intepretation of texts, both theoretically and practically
• Faroese children’s literature (both prose and poetry) and gain competence to analyse it from diverse viewpoints
• the evaluation of students’ written assignments
Content
• Children’s linguistic development
• Ways of stimulating linguistic competence
• Phonetics
• Conjugation
• Morphology
• Language Usage
• How to individually teach children to read through writing
• How to understand what one reads
• Reading difficulties
• Didactics
• Reading in contemporary society
• Faroese children literature and poetry
Learning and teaching approaches
Lectures, discussions and group work, with a focus on project based learning
Assessment method
Logbook
Group research paper
The grade is based on the 13 point scale. It takes into a count both the student’s participation in the class, especially the research project, and the final research paper