What are the Classes?
EDCI 720
ESL/Dual Language Methods (Fall Semester)
An exploration of contemporary approaches, methods, and strategies for the appropriate instruction of second language learners. Also provided is a theoretical perspective on ESL/Dual Language approaches including the communicative, cognitive, and grammatical. Finally, the course provides an overview of the foundations of Bilingual and ESL Education. Prerequisites: Undergraduate and junior standing. Graduate: Inservice/practicing educator. All students who seek ESL Endorsement must take this course. No substitutions permitted.
EDCI 742
ESL/Dual Language Assessment (Spring Semester)
An in-depth examination of key issues/challenges in the appropriate language content-area and acculturational assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse students. Among focal topics in theory, research and practice discussed will be: pre- and post-instructional assessment, language testing, and placement for programming in ESL/Dual Language classrooms. Prerequisites: Undergraduate and junior standing. Graduate: Inservice/practicing educator. All students who seek ESL Endorsement must take this course. No substitutions permitted.
EDCI 731
ESL/Dual Language Linguistics (Fall Semester)
Explores the theoretical underpinnings of language acquisition and linguistics that educators need to understand in order to better plan appropriately adapted curriculum and instruction for second language learners. The course encompasses problematic aspects of English language learning, the ways in which languages may differ, certain universal aspects of language, and the process of literacy development. Prerequisites: Undergraduate and junior standing. Graduate: Inservice/practicing educator. All students who seek ESL Endorsement must take this course. No substitutions permitted.
EDCI 740
Culture and Language in Classroom Practice (Spring Semester)
(Multicultural)
This course provides an overview of key issues relevant to:
Cross-cultural dynamics of the ESL setting.
Appropriate adaptations necessary for multicultural curriculum.
The major topics addressed in this course include, but are not limited to:
- Rapidly changing societal demographics and the realities of social change toward increasing diversity.
- Location of the institution of schooling along the social change continuum.
- Goals and benefits of third wave change.
- Perspectives on and typologies of pluralism and multiculturalism.
- Understanding culture.
- Understanding the culture-learning process.
- The process, outcomes, and limitations of socialization.
- The intersections of cultures in schools and classrooms.
- Framework for the analysis of intercultural interactions and their application to educational practice.
- The internalization of multiculturalism.
- The myths and false premises which lie at the heart of the underutilization of parents and community in the culturally diverse school environment.
- Curriculum transformation and the dynamics of ethnic growth.
EDCI 745 (Elementary) and EDCI 746 (Secondary) (Fall and Spring Semesters)
ESL/Dual Language Practicum
The practicum is a portfolio-based experience providing the student with application experiences in ESL/Dual Language methods, assessment, and multicultural competence as well as the opportunity to demonstrate understanding of second language acquisition. Students will be required to spend 65 hours in a school setting where they can practice and implement ESL lessons/methodology. Prerequisites: EDCI 720, 731, 740, 742 and EDCIP 733. Undergraduate and junior standing. Graduate: Inservice/practicing educator. All students who seek ESL Endorsement must take this course. No substitutions are permitted.
