Teaching ESL Licensure

To sign up for this option, you need to contact the Curriculum and Instruction Department. Do not fill out a major/minor form for graduation or the major/minor/concentration section of the major change form. Approvals for this option must come from the Curriculum and Instruction Department.  

Teaching Licensure - Education; Track: Teaching ESL

College of ED & Human Sciences

Catalog Year: 2015-2016

Degree Specific Credits: 24

Required Cumulative GPA: 2.0

Note: Individuals completing a teaching minor must also complete a teaching major in another content area. Students must be formally admitted to the Teacher Education Program and complete all of the professional education licensure requirements. See the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education and Human Sciences for more information. A minor GPA of 2.75 is required to be eligible for student teaching.

Core Courses

Rule: Must complete the following subcategories

16 Total Credits Required

Required Courses

Rule: All courses are required

Note: Those completing the teaching minor in ESL must take Ling 495 ESL Practicum for 3 credits.

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Show Description LING 470 - Linguistic Analysis
Offered autumn and spring. An in-depth examination of the formal properties of language, concentrating on the core areas of linguistic analysis (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics).
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 471 - Phonetics and Phonology
Offered autumn. Prereq., LING 470.  A study of phonetic and phonological systems from as many as 20 languages, most of them non–Indo–European; training in how to do linguistic analysis as well as linguistic theory. This course co-convenes with LING 571.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 472 - Generative Syntax
Offered autumn. Prereq., LING 470. A study of the human language sentence–formation system, the means for expressing semantic information as propositional content. Emphasis on the abstraction of utterances in the form of mathematical objects. This course co-convenes with LING 572.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 480 - Tchg Engl as For Lang
Offered autumn. Prereq., LING 270 or equiv. Same as ENLI 480. The application of principles of modern linguistics to the problems of teaching English as a foreign language.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 495 - ESL Practicum
Offered autumn and spring. Prereq., or coreq., LING 480. Offered every term.  Same as ENLI 491.  Students with a teaching major take the course for 3 credits; others take it for 1 credit and do one third of the work.
 1 To 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 13 Total Credits Required

Core Options

Rule: Complete 1 of the following courses

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Show Description LING 477 - Bilingualism
Offered autumn. Prereq., LING 270S or equiv. Societal and individual bilingualism:  topics include language policy, maintenance, interference, code-switching and mixting, and bilingual education.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 478 - Second Language Development
Offered spring. Prereq., LING 270 or equivalent. Observing/describing language learners' behaviors and, to a degree, advances toward proficiency (i.e., fluency plus accuracy); the presence of error as conditioned by a priori knowledge of language and implications for child and adult development; and applying typical methods of linguistic analysis to the (non-) systematic variants in language form characterizing developmental processes as a way of trying to explain variable behavior.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 3 Total Credits Required

Elective Courses

Rule: Complete 2 of the following courses

Note: Ling 477 or Ling 478 may be taken as an Elective if not taken as a Required Course.

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Show Description LING 466 - Pedaogical Grammar
Offered intermittently. Prereq., LING 470. Discussion of English grammar from a non–native speaker perspective focusing on items and structures that are difficult for non–native speakers.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 473 - Language and Culture
Offered spring. Prereq., LING 470.  Technical study of the relationships between grammatical categories and world view. This course co-convenes with LING 573.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 481 - The ESL Professional
Offered intermittently. Prereq. or coreq., LING 491; prereq., LING 480 or consent of instr. Professional development techniques for the independent language teacher: language test construction, self–critique of teaching strategies, materials development, curriculum evaluation and design, and electronic and print media resources for the language teaching professional.
 3 Credits
Show Description LING 489 - Morphology
Offered spring.  Prereq., LING 470.  A survey of the morphological features of several unrelated languages to provide the student with a broad overview of how languages compare and contrast. This course co-convenes with LING 589.
 3 Credits
Minimum Required Grade: C- 6 Total Credits Required