LINGUISTICS FOR TEACHERS
Addresses aspects of forms, features and functions of the English language, including an understanding of multiple varieties and registers of English, and how language use functions in and out of schools. Attention to the emergent bilingual students' use of dual/multiple languages, varieties, registers, and discourses, relationships between first and additional languages, and ways to support students as they develop linguistic repertoires that include particular varieties of language that can help facilitate school success.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Declared in Elementary Education: Kindergarten - 9th Grade, BSE and English as a Second Language Minor Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify students' use of diverse forms, features, and functions of language for learning Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze relationships between the classroom and school environment and learner's language practices Audience: Undergraduate 3. Bring theoretical and empirical work to bear on analysis of learners' language practices Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop strategies for leveraging home and school language, varieties, registers, and discourses to provide learners with access to the language of schooling Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss critically social and ideological constructions of classroom and school language practices Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify students' use of diverse forms, features, and functions of language for learning Audience: Undergraduate 2. Analyze relationships between the classroom and school environment and learner's language practices Audience: Undergraduate 3. Bring theoretical and empirical work to bear on analysis of learners' language practices Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop strategies for leveraging home and school language, varieties, registers, and discourses to provide learners with access to the language of schooling Audience: Undergraduate 5. Discuss critically social and ideological constructions of classroom and school language practices Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027