ED 605F - Paradigms ESL/Bilingual LA/SS

3 Credit(s)

This course will explore the sociolinguistic aspects of bilingualism and ESL/Bilingual education in the subject areas of social studies and language arts. 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 middle and secondary grades as they relate to the subject areas of language arts and social studies.

Offered (SS)