LINGUISTICS FOR EDUCATORS
An introduction to language, literacy and linguistic diversity for teachers. Provides an overview of the components of language, the structure of the English language and how language functions, with special emphasis on how language is used in schools, with the goal of supporting teachers' work with multilingual learners. Through exploration of language(s) and a critical reflection of personal experiences as language users, language learners, language analysts and language advocates, enhance understanding of communicative repertoires as dynamic, fluid, and complex.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Summer 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in critical reflection of their own communicative repertoires, as well as those of others Audience: Graduate 2. Develop explicit knowledge about language forms and functions in teaching and learning. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop a responsive and expansive multilingual orientation to teaching and learning language(s) and content in the classroom Audience: Graduate 4. Identify the components of language and how they relate to one another to produce meaning Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Engage in critical reflection of their own communicative repertoires, as well as those of others Audience: Graduate 2. Develop explicit knowledge about language forms and functions in teaching and learning. Audience: Graduate 3. Develop a responsive and expansive multilingual orientation to teaching and learning language(s) and content in the classroom Audience: Graduate 4. Identify the components of language and how they relate to one another to produce meaning Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027