2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EDU 341 - ESOL Foundations Cross-Cultural Communication & Applied Linguistics

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): For elementary majors: EDU 222 EDU 226 EDU 228
Corequisite(s): For elementary education majors: EDU 320/321
This course covers Domain 1 and 2 of the ESOL Teacher Standards 2010. The focus of this course is on two major topics: culture and applied linguistics. The course will provide pre-service teachers with a knowledge base that focuses on developing cross-cultural understanding and knowledge of applied linguistics to promote instructional practices that are grounded in current research based practices for English Language Learners (ELLs). Additionally, the course will address the legal mandate of the Consent Decree, theoretical constructs in the field of second language acquisition, as well as research-based practical applications in the domains of cross-cultural communication and applied linguistics to help pre-service teachers understand, apply and integrate them into meeting the academic and communication needs of ELLs. Field experience is required.