Teaching of Additional Languages

Minor in TESOL: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Program of Study

The minor in teaching English to speakers of other languages consists of the following 15 semester credits of required and elective courses. NOTE: Courses applied towards the minor cannot be applied towards the major field of study.

one course in ESOL teaching methodology:

ELAN 5630 Teaching ESOL in P-12 settings
or
ELAN 4060 TESOL methods and materials

two courses in first and second language acquisition to include:

ELAN 5730 First and second language acquisition and development
and one elective chosen from the following courses in

English language, linguistics, or second language learning:
CMSD 4130 Language Science
CMSD/LING 4500 Study of Language Development
ENGL (LING) 3030 Introduction to the English language
ENGL (LING) 4010 American English
ENGL (LING) 4110 English grammar
ENGL (LING) 4170 Second language acquisition
ENGL (LING) 4180 ESL error analysis

two courses in sociocultural aspects of teaching and learning additional languages to include the following:

ELAN 5040 Language and culture in the classroom or ELEM/ELAN 5180 Understanding cultural and linguistic diversity in schools
one elective on the inter-relation of language and culture:

ANTH (LING) 3080 Anthropology of language
ANTH (LING) 4860 Sociolinguistics
CMLT (LING) 4740 Discourse analysis
CMLT (LING) 4870 Language, gender, and culture
ELAN 5318 Culturally diverse children©ˆs literature
ENGL (LING) 3020 Language variation
FREN 4070 French and francophone literature and culture since 1990
ITAL 4070 Italian literature and culture from 1700 to the present
LING 3830 Languages of the world
LING 4710 Languages in contact
PORT 3010 Introduction to language, literature, and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world
PORT 4010 Advanced language, literature, and culture of the Portuguese-speaking world
PORT 4080 Studies in culture and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world
SPAN 4050 Spanish literature and culture from the Enlightenment through the present
SPAN 4070 Spanish-American literature and culture from modernism through the present
SPCM 4800 Intercultural communication
SWAH (YORB) 3030 Introduction to African Languages, cultures, and folklore