10 courses with the subject ALS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ALS 1301Intro to Applied Linguistics3
Credits: 3 hrs The course is an introduction to the study of applied linguistics. Students will be in the field (grammer, vocabulary, discourse analysis, not pragmatics) and will be familiarized with key issues in each of those areas. Special emphasis will be given to deciphering the nature of language (social, cultural, and cognitive) and the place of language study in society.
Credits: 3 hrs The course will engage students in critical inquiry about the relationship between language and culture, which defines humans’ outlook on the world. Students will learn about diverse cultures and languages so that they acquire and integrative undertstanding of the shared human values across significant differences. Metathaphorically put, the course will hlp students ‘figure out the foreigners’ and ‘step out and fit in around the world.’ The course will focus on language universals, on communications by different societies, and on some effective strategies for appropriately addressing the challenges posed to cross-cultural communication by cultural and a course that satisfies some of WSSU’s general education requirements as well as an elective course for students majoring in elementary education with an academic concentrationin TESL.
Students should be at least in their sophmore year. Student Learning Outcome: Written Communication Area of Knowledge: Foreign Lang & Culture Curricular Theme: Globalization
ALS 2310Englishes of the World3
Credits: 3 hrs This course will familiarize the students with the global spread of English and its linguistic, social and cultural implications for the world’s nations as well as for international communication. The course aims at examining and re-evaluating concepts such as native speaker, non-native speaker, linguistic ownership, language variety as well as the new meaning attached to them in the globalized era. The course will serve as a course that satisfies some of the WSSU’s general education requirement as well as an elective course for students majoring in elementary educationwith an academic concentration in TESL.
Students should be at least in their sophmore year. Student Learning Outcome: Critical Thinking Area of Knowledge: Foreign Lang & Culture Curricular Theme: Globalization
ALS 2315Gender Diff in Language Use3
Credits: 3 hrs The course will introduce students to the study of thr relationship between language as used by women and language as used by men as well as the cultural/social expectations of such use. Students will be introduced to investigation to investigate tools they need in order to be able to conduct their independent exploration of problematic areas, such as, language power and women’s status, female vs. male style in communication and interaction and interaction, language and genders, promotion of gender equality in language use, and ungenderized language.
One level two writing course; one critical thinking course. Student Learning Outcome: Information Literacy Area of Knowledge: Foreign Lang & Culture Curricular Theme: Diversity
ALS 2320Language and Society3
Credits: 3 hrs The course explores sociolinguistics, that is, the study of the ways language works in society. Students will be familiarized with both classic and contemporary issues in the field, namely, the relationshio between linguistic variation and social categories like socioeconomic class, ethnicity, geographical location, and age, to name a few. In addition, students will be presented with ways language creates identites, ways in which it contructs, mirrors, and disputes social justice and power in society.
ALS 3300Cultural Aspects of Teaching and Learning ESL3
Credits: 3 hrs This course will examine major issues of language and culture relevant to elementary school teachers who might be faced with ESL students in their classes. Candidates will be introduced to universal aspects of language such as communicative meaning and intentions/uses of communication. Relevant similarities and differences in world languages will be examined with respect to the interconnectedness of language and culture. Candidates will study the function of language in daily life, its effect on bilingual students, and the influence of cultural heritage and identity on second language skills development.
Credits: 3 hrs This course examines basic issues concerning the role of grammar in the development of ESL students’ communicative competence as well as basic issues concerning the teaching of grammar and the techniques for doing so. The course will also provide a general overview of English grammar from a traditional as well as a communicative/functional perspective. It will focus primarily on aspects of English grammar that are relevant to teaching ESL students.
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, candidates will study of basic features of language learning, fundamental langugae acquistion theories, the stages of second language development, and the individual student needs and characteristics that will contribute to student performance. Candidates will draw conclusions about various language learning theories and how those theories can be applied to the school community.
This course is designed to examine the major trends, methods, principles and strategies of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL). Special emphasis will be placed on the major trends language teaching contributing to the development of students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. ESL content-based instruction will also be referenced in this course. Lesson planning, micro-teaching, examination of textbooks in the discipline will be addressed. Ways of adapting lesson plans and textbooks to the needs of ESL students will be discussed.
Credits: 3 hrs The course examines instructional strategies to meet the needs of English language learners in the mainstream classroom. Teacher candidates are introduced to strategies for the development of students’ reading and writing skills, academic language, and vocabulary. Special emphasis is placed on designing and implementing effective lesson plans that include both language objectives and content-area objectives. Some attention is given to selecting diverse age-appropriate works, evaluating/adapting literary materials, and using a variety of texts such as advertisements and cartoons.
