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Graduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Certificate Code - CG62

Graduation Requirement: Students must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 and a minimum GPA of 3.0 in courses applied to the certificate.

Course List
Code Title Hours
CORE COURSES6
LANG 521
English as a Second Language Methods
LANG 622
English as a Second Language Theory
ELECTIVES6
Choose two of the following:
ESL 630
American Culture
LANG 421
The Teaching of Foreign Languages
LANG 422
Second Language Reading
LANG 423
Teaching English Overseas
LANG 621
Teaching Foreign Language in College
LANG 625
Language Assessment
LANG 626
Literacy in a Second Language
LING 511
English as a Second Language Linguistics
LING 514
Sociolinguistics
LING 516
Discourse Analysis
LING 517
Cognitive Foundations of Language
LING 613
English as a Second Language Phonetics
LING 620
Spanish Prosody
SPAN 521
Dialectology and Sociolinguistics
Total Hours12

Certificate Learning Outcomes

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Students completing this graduate certificate will be able to:

  1. Identify, explain, and evaluate major theories of second language acquisition and apply them in pedagogical practices.
  2. Identify and explain the relevance of topics in applied linguistics to English language teaching.
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