EDU61120/EDU6112 - Applied Linguistics Seminar- Content Area Reading: Single Subject

(3 units)

This course is a study of the English Language Development (ELD) and English Language Arts (ELA) standards specific to reading development, strategies and curricular components that facilitate all students’ access to grade appropriate content-area curriculum, and foundational second language acquisition theory and applied linguistics practices pertinent to teaching the English language learner in a mainstreamed class as well as students with low level reading skills engaged in learning throughout the curriculum. Students develop knowledge and skills needed to appropriately assess students’ secondary literacy skills and provide the educational opportunities to progress to and master the ELA content standards and the knowledge and skills to support success in all curricular areas for students with low level reading skills. Teacher Candidates participate in instruction, activities, and experiences which enable the Candidate to develop strategies and methods for guiding English language learner students and speakers of English students in the development of content-based reading and writing. This reading and writing competency for students in all content areas is to be addressed and assessed for students with varied reading and writing levels as well as varied language backgrounds.