LFN-503: Advanced Methods of Teaching Foreign Language

Credits 3.00
Academic Level
Graduate
Instructional Method
Lecture
This course is designed to help teachers and administrators to understand better the unique challenges of linguistic minority teachers in a K-12 setting. We will focus on 6-12 education, although application may be found to other levels as well. We will review relevant areas of linguistic and language acquisition theory, study bilingualism and its implications for education, and share strategies for working with faculties, colleagues, and students who do not have two or more languages housed in their brains. Effective instructional approaches and techniques for students with limited foreign-language or target-language proficiency (including those in mainstream classrooms) will be analyzed. [ 3 credits ]