7 courses with the subject ESL, 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.
ESL 2301Introduction to Second Language Acquisition3
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, candidates will study the basic features of language learning, fundamental language acquisition 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.
The 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, and 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 requirements as well as an elective course for students majoring in elementary education with an academic concentration in TESL.
Credits: 3 hrs The course will introduce students to the study of the relationship between language as used by women and language as used by men as well as the culural/social expectations of such use. Students will be introduced to investigative 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, language and gender stereotypes, miscommunication across genders, promotion of gender equality in language use, and ungenderized language.
One level two writing course; one critical thinking course
ESL 2320Language and Society3
Credits: 3 hrs The course will develope/increase students’ ability to identify, location, evaluate, and use information effectvely and responsibly to increase understanding of the ways language works in society. Students will be introduced to investigative tools they need in order to be able to conduct their independent exploration of problematic ares, such as the relationship between linguistic varation and socialcategories like socioeconomic class, ethinicity, geographical location, age, the ways language creates indentifies, and the ways in which it constructs, mirros and disputes social justice and power in society.
ESL 3302Foundations of Second Language Acquisition3
Credits: 3 hrs In this course, candidates will study the basic features of language learning, fundamental language acquisition 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.
Credits: 3 hrs 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.
