ED 605E - Paradigms ESL/Bilingual-Elementary

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 3
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 3

This course will explore the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and ESL/Bilingual education in the elementary grades. Students will explore the history of immigration trends in the United States, the history of dual language instruction nationally, surface and deep norms and social capital of immigrant and refugee students, strategies for developing culturally responsive literacy and discourse practices, ways to involve and encourage the bi-cultural students in the classroom, and theoretical assumptions and research pertaining to sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic components of instruction as they relate to programmatic and instructional approaches for the elementary grades.

Offered Summer