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EDU60630 - Principles, Practices and Socio-Cultural Issues of Teaching English Language Learners

(3 units)
This course examines all aspects of teaching English Language Learners in K-12 schools. School based Language Arts programs are examined in the context of state and federal legislative mandates pertaining to the education of English Language Learners. You will learn about and effectively use materials, methods, and strategies for assessing a student’s English proficiency level and providing instruction that leads to grade-level English listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. The California English Language Development Standards are reviewed and lesson planning based on the Standards is a focus of this course. This is an applied practices course and you will learn about, modify, and apply the strategies and methods that are effective with English Language Learners, and share experiential knowledge with your colleagues in the course. Included in this course is a study of Specially Designed Academic Instruction in English (SDAIE) strategies and ELD methods including the use of comprehensible input to promote accessible content area curricula for English Language Learners. The theoretical focus includes first and second language acquisition theory, language development theory, literacy methods, and psychological and socio-cultural factors that have an impact on language learning.