FOUNDATIONS OF ESL EDUCATION
Addresses social, cultural, and educational issues related to schooling for young English learners. Provides an overview of multiple factors that impact teaching and learning. Issues include but are not limited to: theories relating to language use and learning; registers and varieties of English; program structures and designs; school and classroom environments, and connections between families and schools.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Elementary Education BSE, Capstone Certificate in Spanish-English Bilingual-Bicultural Education, Certificate in Preparing to Teach Abroad, or Certificate in Global Cultures, Languages and Education Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate how key topics and issues pertaining to emergent ESL students intersect with differing views about equitable schooling and education. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply theories and concepts about factors related to equitable teaching, learning, and curriculum to assess practicum experiences that involve emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and articulate key topics and issues related to the schooling and education of emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate the social, cultural, political and historical contexts of educational policies and programs related to emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate how key topics and issues pertaining to emergent ESL students intersect with differing views about equitable schooling and education. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Apply theories and concepts about factors related to equitable teaching, learning, and curriculum to assess practicum experiences that involve emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Identify and articulate key topics and issues related to the schooling and education of emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate the social, cultural, political and historical contexts of educational policies and programs related to emergent ESL students. Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027