EDBE 3050 - Teaching English as an Additional Language

3 hours

Focuses on the methods and techniques of teaching English as an additional language and assessing emergent bilinguals in elementary and secondary schools. Using asset-based approaches, the course will examine the use of bilingual learners’ strengths in the classroom to design and implement meaningful and authentic lessons, assessments and classroom activities that advance the students’ knowledge of the English language and the content areas. Also explores educational structures and pedagogical methodologies that promote language and literacy developmentcentered in the students’ family and community traditions.

Recommended: EDBE 2050.

Course specific fees (in addition to tuition and mandatory):
Academic (AF) per hour: $23.30