MEd. Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

• Foundations of Instruction for English Language Learners
  
  This course provides the historical, sociological, political, and legal foundations of instructional programs for English Language Learners in the United States. This framework will serve as a basis for understanding, comparing, and evaluating current language models and prototypes.
  
  
• Methods of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
  
  In this course, students will be instructed in immersion strategies, English language development strategies, and numerous research-based methodologies in current practice.
  
  
• English Linguistics
  
  This course will familiarize students with the fundamentals of linguistic theory, including the morphological, phonological, and syntactic structure of the English language.
  
  
• Teaching a Second Language in the Content Areas
  
  The purpose of this course is to equip students with an awareness and sensitivity to the complexity and content-specific nature of language in curricular areas such as science, mathematics, and social studies.
  
  
• Second Language Acquisition and Education
  
  This course offers background understanding of how SLA research informs language teaching. It examines the interaction between SLA research findings and the teaching of listening comprehension, reading, vocabulary, writing and grammar, and shows how SLA research can help teachers appreciate individual learner differences and appropriately adapt their teaching styles.
  
  
• Teaching in a Pluralistic Society
  
  This course gives attention to instructional models that have proven successful with students from diverse linguistic, cultural, racial, ethnic, economic, and intellectual backgrounds.
  
  
• Modern English Grammar
  
  In this course, students are introduced to the linguistic analysis of English syntax, with attention given both to a descriptive approach that examines how sentences are constructed and how they relate to each other as well as to the traditional prescriptive grammar taught in most schools.
  
  
• Reading Theories and Research Syllabus
  
  The focus of the course is to prepare classroom teachers to critically read published research on the teaching of reading to speakers of other languages, to integrate those findings with personal experience in order to make reflective instructional decisions, and to participate in pedagogical research and theory building.
  
  
• Curriculum Development and Assessment
  
  Teachers must be course developers as well as designers of instruction for daily and weekly lessons. In this course, students compare numerous syllabus types such as grammatical, text-based, and content-based.
  
  
• Child Language Acquisition
  
  This course introduces the language educator to the current, central issues in the study of child language acquisition, or native language acquisition, including an examination of research on children’s acquisition of phonology, pragmatics, morphology, syntax and the lexicon.
  
  
• Internship in TESOL
  
  Students have direct participation and experience with English Language Learners at their chosen level of instruction, whether children or adults. In a supervised classroom, they will practice teaching and management skills, conduct assessments, and learn to communicate effectively with students, parents, colleagues, administrators, and the larger community.