Children's FL literacy development 2300-J-DWNJA-PT

Contemporary language teaching didactics aimed at children cannot remain indifferent to ongoing changes. Despite the complexity of the issue requiring an understanding and adaptation to the educational needs of children involving the development of the first language, topics related to "literacy" are relatively little emphasized in the process of training language teachers, especially teachers of children. Teaching literacy in a foreign language cannot be separated from literacy in the mother tongue or unrelated to the development of oral communication. Thus, the aim of the course is to theoretically and practically familiarize with contemporary approaches to the development of writing, reading, comprehension and working with text in foreign language didactics at early educational levels in diverse contexts of foreign language education (TEYL, CLIL).
The aim of the course is to introduce contemporary approaches to developing writing, reading, reading comprehension and text production skills in foreign language didactics at early educational levels in diverse foreign language education contexts such as TEYL or CLIL.
The course includes content that deepens knowledge of what it is to develop writing and reading skills in the native and foreign language, factors influencing children's acquisition of these skills, a variety of approaches that support comprehension, interaction with text (written and listening), methods and techniques for teaching writing and reading aimed at communication, diversity and multimodality of texts used in teaching foreign languages to children.
Developing the ability to write, read and, above all, understand and apply text is now seen as one of the key competencies in the modern world. The life of a modern person in a digital reality is daily linked to the need to communicate and receive a large amount of meaning in a variety of forms. In English, such a skill is called with the term "literacy", which unfortunately does not have a good equivalent in Polish. In modern English-language literature, there is a
shift away from linking these goals to literacy alone, emphasizing the complexity of the issue.
The term "literacy" consists of the ability to understand, interpret, analyze, interact with different types of texts from different sources of information (Sensenbaugh 1990).
Researchers stress that the current approach, which is limited only to literacy and does not include the impact of new technologies, diverse types of texts, critical thinking, analysis and synthesis skills, is insufficient in the current world. The purpose of this course, therefore, is to try to discuss the complexity of topics related to these issues. Contemporary language teaching didactics aimed at children also cannot be indifferent to the changes taking place. Despite the complexity of the issue requiring understanding and
adaptation to the educational needs of children involving the development of the first language, topics related to "literacy" are relatively little emphasized in the process of training language teachers, especially teachers of children. Teaching literacy in a foreign language cannot be separated from literacy in the mother tongue or unrelated to the development of oral communication. Thus, the aim of the course is to provide theoretical and practical introduction to contemporary approaches to the development of writing, reading,
comprehension and working with text in foreign language didactics at early educational levels in diverse contexts of foreign language education (TEYL, CLIL).

This course includes the following content:
- The concept of literacy in early childhood education and foreign language didactics
- Factors affecting literacy acquisition in the native and foreign languages
- Approaches to teaching reading and receiving text in a foreign language in work with children
- Approaches to teaching writing and producing texts in a foreign language when working with children
- Factors influencing text selection in children's language teaching
- The use of text in integrated language and literacy teaching (CLIL)
- The use of a variety of strategies in teaching reading and writing in early childhood education and language education
- Ways of assessing literacy in children's language teaching