Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Methods for teaching English as second language to adult learners in a variety of domestic and international contexts. Focus on communicative and task-based methods involving both oral and written skills. Objective writing, lesson planning and execution.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
National and international approaches, methods, materials, settings, needs, and characteristics of ESL and foreign language students. Survey, evaluation, and application of major effective methods and materials.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Teaching grammar to English-as-second language (ESL) students. Grammar lesson plan development. English grammar, error identification, common English-as-second language errors, evaluation of grammar textbooks, and the role of error correction in English-as-second language teaching.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Basic principles of learning a second or foreign language. Issues in first language acquisition. Theories of second language learning. Aptitude, motivation, attitude, learning grammar, age, learning in a classroom, myths, and facts about second language learning.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits: 1 to 4
Special projects arranged by an individual student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Practical experience in adult ESL teaching. Classroom observations, tutoring, teaching demonstrations, lesson planning, and materials development.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Approaches, methods, and materials for teaching foreign and second languages , including the teaching of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Selection and evaluation of materials, lesson planning, and management of activities and materials.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Classroom diagnostic and achievement assessment. Reliability and validity of language tests. Alternative assessment methods. Standardized and performance-based testing. Program-level assessment. Measuring language proficiency for research.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Teaching reading and writing in foreign and second language contexts. Vocabulary and pre-reading activities; materials development; integrating, assessing and researching reading and writing; reading and writing to learn language, academic reading and writing.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax within the context of second language acquisition and teaching. Approaches to analysis of second language learner data.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Selected topics and issues in second/foreign language learning and teaching.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Phonological, morphological, grammatical, lexical, discourse and pragmatic systems of English, including historical origins and social, regional, and gender variations. Application to the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Current debates on the relationship between language, identity, and ideology. Theories of identity and ideology related to a variety of educational settings. Negotiation of identity and ideology with respect to social relationships between writer and reader, teacher and student, classroom and community.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Factors in second language learning such as age, motivation, language input and interaction, social influences, the role of the native language, and language universals.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Continuation of LLT 861. Professional development seminar in second language acquisition. Research project. Collecting and analyzing data. Preparing projects for conference presentation and publication. Topics vary.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Theoretical issues related to second language acquisition. Acquisition of morphosyntax.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Second and foreign language learning from a psycholinguistic perspective. Discussion of major research findings and theories of second and foreign language perception, comprehension, and production.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Concepts and procedures for designing and conducting research in second/foreign language learning and teaching.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Statistical principles and techniques with particular application to investigating second language learning and teaching.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Theories, principles, and techniques underlying qualitative research. Applications to investigating second language learning and teaching.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits: 3
Special projects, directed reading, and research arranged by an individual graduate student and a faculty member in areas supplementing regular course offerings.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Lesson planning, materials development, adapting authentic materials, and microteaching. Classroom management for the teaching of English as a second language.
Offered: Spring of every year
Credits: 3
Syllabus and lesson plan development for a six-week English as a Second Language course. Team teach in a community setting.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year, Summer of every year
Credits: 1 to 6
Directed research leading to a master’s thesis, used in partial fulfillment of Plan A master’s degree requirements.
Offered: Fall of every year
Credits: 3
Contemporary theories and issues relating to learning English as a second language.
Offered: Fall of every year, Spring of every year
Credits: 1 to 36
Doctoral dissertation research