Course List

With nearly 50 locations across the Caribbean, the UWI Open Campus, assists the University with providing virtual and physical access to accredited programmes, courses and other support services to students wherever they are.

This course is the prerequisite to EDLA2103 & EDLA3103

The aim of this course is to:

1. improve teachers’ acquaintance with an understanding of literary texts and materials suitable for use in schools;
2. improve teachers’ own grasp of the knowledge, skills and habits that need to be developed in the school curriculum in literature.

This course demonstrate an understanding of the approach to literature taken by CXC and the role literature plays in language teaching and learning; relate principles of literary theory relevant to the delivery of the CXC English B programme; identify and analyse levels of reader response for different genres of text used by the CXC level; select appropriate methodologies and strategies to foster adolescents’ understanding and insights in reading and responding to literature.

To understand the linguistic and discourse demands of and philosophical approach to language taken by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC).  To evaluate recent, local research findings on students’ linguistic performance at the upper level of the secondary school; identity and analyse levels of reader-response for different genres of texts used at the CXC level; relate principles of writing theory relevant to the delivery of the CXC English language programme; apply knowledge of language and literature content to developing a working CXC English language syllabus; design and evaluate learning activities suitable for adolescents sitting CXC English language; demonstrate understanding of the assessment procedures used by the CXC.

To introduce participants to the nature of writing as a cognitive activity; To examine the categories and forms of writing required in the secondary school; explore the range of assessment instruments and strategies available to teachers, and the ways that these forms of assessment inform instruction.