HED4807 ASSIGNMENT 1 2025 – FULLY ANSWERED (DUE 7 MAY 2025)

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HED4807 Assignment 1 Memo | Due 7 May 2025. All questions fully answered. SECTION 2: Your personal language teaching and learning philosophy.
Your completed assessment must be about 500 to 600 words. Work on approximately 60 to 70 words each for points 1 to 8.
1. Write in one or two sentences what your foundational beliefs about language teaching and learning are.
2. Purpose of Language Education:
Discuss what you consider the purposes of language education are. Think about a specific context such as primary school, high school as well as the language level. Perhaps explain the skills language acquisition requires and such as but not limited to communication.
3. What is your philosophy regarding the learners and their classroom experience.
For example, consider our multicultural and multilingual classrooms, and if teaching should teacher driven or learner- centred.
4. Which language learning theories inform your teaching?
Consider the language your approach to teaching language, and how you think learners learn languages. Which language learning theories do you think you apply in your teaching?
5. How should technology be integrated in language teaching.
What role does technology play and how is it relevant to language learning? Think about technology devices but also large language models and artificial intelligence.
6. What is Culturally Responsive Teaching.
How is indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems part of your language education philosophy?
7. Language teaching and learning approach.
What is your preferred language teaching approach and why?
8. Assessment in language learning
Discuss the assessment practice that you think is most effective and explain why you think so.