Rowan University

Current Policy and Practice in ESL and Bilingual Education

BLED 40405

This course addresses foundational theories and areas of research related to the field of TESOL and bilingual education. Special emphasis is placed on the forces affecting students and policies related to second language schooling in state, national, and international contexts. Students will develop a reflective philosophy for educating English Language learners.

Issues of Language and Cultural Diversity in ESL/Bilingual Programs

BLED 40510

This course focuses on foundational theories and areas of research related to the field of TESOL and bilingual education. Special emphasis is placed on the forces affecting students and policies related to second language schooling in state, national and international contexts. Students will develop a reflective philosophy for educating English Language learners.

University of Colorado Boulder

Bilingual and Biliterate Development in Children and Adolescents

EDUC 8630

This advanced doctoral seminar introduces doctoral students to key theories and empirical research on bilingual and biliterate development in school age children (PreK-12). Participants will explore sociolinguistic, sociocultural, and psycholinguistic perspectives of the language and literacy development of children growing up with two or more languages, and critically examine how varying educational contexts and policies impact the schooling experiences of bilingual learners from early childhood to late adolescence.

Language Acquisition for Bilingual Learners

EDUC 4615

This course examines the variables that interact in the process of learning language(s) and developing bilingualism and biliteracy. These variables include the learner's background, motivation, linguistic, cognitive, emotional, social, cultural, and political factors. The course will examine these factors and generate understandings about how they work together to foster or inhibit successful development of bilingualism and biliteracy in community, home, and school contexts.

Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education

EDUC 2425

Provides the conceptual, linguistic, sociological, historical, political, and legal foundations that have shaped bilingual education policies, program models, and teaching and assessment practices of bilingual and multicultural education in the U.S. Designed for undergraduate elementary teacher education majors, the course presents an overview of the types of bilingual education programs and the principles that anchor equitable and quality bilingual and multicultural education for emergent bilingual students, including those identified as English learners.

Montclair State University

Teaching Content in Early Childhood and Elementary Bilingual and Sheltered English Classrooms

ECEL 527

This course highlights the principles and features of effective instruction to support young English learners' mastery of grade-level content across the curriculum. Students explore both bilingual and sheltered English approaches as they learn to identify the language demands of everyday tasks in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts, and to modify instruction to make lessons comprehensible and relevant for students. They learn strategies to build academic language through content learning, design materials that support content objectives, and differentiate instruction across English proficiency levels. 

Language, Acquisition, and Bilingualism

READ 520

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of language and early literacy development, with a focus on bilingualism and second language acquisition from birth to five years of age. Students examines the major subsystems of language - phonology, morphology, vocabulary, grammar, pragmatics, and discourse - and the development of these subsystems in both first and second language acquisition processes. Students explore social, cultural, cognitive, and instructional influences on language and early literacy development, and learn strategies to facilitate dual language learning in preschool classroom contexts. They use language research procedures to document a child's bilingual development and plan instructional adaptations that support dual language and emergent literacy growth.

Second Language Content Area Learning in Early Childhood and Elementary Classrooms

TELL 473

Students examine principles and features of effective instruction to support young English learners' mastery of core grade-level content across the curriculum. They learn to identify the language demands of everyday tasks in mathematics, science, social studies, and language arts, and to modify instruction to appropriately scaffold learning for ELL students at differing levels of English proficiency while building academic language.

Literacy in the Upper Grades

READ 408

In this course, prospective elementary teachers continue their exploration of key theories and methods for teaching literacy, with an emphasis on the intermediate grades. They focus on reading comprehension, vocabulary development, writing instruction, literacy across the content areas, and the use of technology to develop a breadth of pedagogical knowledge. Particular attention is given to developing expertise in differentiated instructional planning that meets a diverse range of learners, including English Language Learners, students with learning disabilities, struggling readers, and advanced students.

Perspectives and Theories at the Intersection of Disability and Language Learning

ECEL 375

This course is designed to give teacher candidates an introduction to working with culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students who are receiving, or in need of, special education services. Using an intersectional lens rooted in disabilities studies and multilingual studies, this course will cover historical and legal perspectives regarding this population, the evaluation process, as well as the educational settings and practices enacted to meet these learners’ needs.

Language Development and Bilingualism in Early Childhood and Elementary Education

TELL 371

In this course students examine first and second language acquisition during the preschool and elementary years, the theory and practice of supporting English language development across the curriculum, strategies to maintain the home language in English immersion settings, and language proficiency and dialectal variation in the classroom. Students also learn about the nature of language and linguistic subsystems (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatics).

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Principles of Teaching Literature to Children and Youth

CI 467

Examines literature written for children and youth and the uses of literature in the school curriculum. 

Language Varieties, Culture, and Learning

CI 415

For students in the elementary and middle grades licensure programs. Introduces students to issues related to first- and second-language development, cultural diversity, and language variation. Addresses the above issues in terms of teaching and learning and serves as a base for subsequent courses that will extend these issues in the content areas.