Academic Year/course:
2018/19
270 - Degree in Psychology
25947 - Psychological processes of literacy
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2018/19
Subject:
25947 - Psychological processes of literacy
Faculty / School:
301 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Degree:
270 - Degree in Psychology
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2 and 4 and 3
Semester:
107-Second Four-month period
270-First Four-month period o Second Four-month period
Subject Type:
Optional
Module:
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4.1. Methodological overview
Combination of lectures with group and individual practical activities and self-directed learning.
4.2. Learning tasks
Learning activities includes:
Lectures
Bibiographical search
Readings
Assesment
Individual work
Group work
Identification and analyses of cases in educational settings
Activities to develop competences.
Such activities will be structured as follows:
- Theoretical knowledge ( 4 ECTS)
Lectures about different basic topics of the course, complemented with recommended bibliography, videos, presentations and exercises.
- Practical knowledge (2 ECTS)
Activities designed to integrate the knowledge, procedural and attitudinal competences of the course, working individually or in groups. Different activities and materials will be employed. Some activities will be aimed to identify reading and writing difficulties, as well as to develop assessment and rehabilitation tasks. For this purpose, case analyses and problem solving will be employed.
- Tutorials
Tutorials will be an opportunity to adjust and regulate the student’s learning progress and correct any problem that may come up along the course.
- Self-study time
The students will be responsible of the regulation of their own learning progress, aided by the aforementioned activities.
4.3. Syllabus
1 Theories and classifications of the difficulties of learning. The system of processing and acquisition of knowledge.
2. Cognitive processes in the reading and writing learning.
3. Learning of reading specific nature. Acquisition, assessment and intervention.
4. Learning of writing specific nature. Acquisition, assessment and intervention.
5. Models and methods of reading: various readers profiles, prevention and intervention programs.
6. Functional assessment of reading and writing tasks. Criteria, theoretical foundation of some tests that assess reading and writing processes.
4.4. Course planning and calendar
Lectures: 2 hours/week
Practices: 2 hours/week
All activities and key dates will be anounced along the course on moodle.