Students in the TESL Certificate program should use the advising sheet below.

To download this advising sheet click on the link below.

TESL Cert. Advising Sheet

Certificate in Teaching English as Second Language Advising Sheet 07-08

Required Courses (15 HOURS)

________ LING 520 Descriptive Linguistics

________ LING 521 Applied Linguistic: TESL

               (Prerequisite: 520, 690, or 786) or

               or LING 507 Internship in Applied Linguistics

               or EDCI 519 Methods of Teaching in

               Bilingual/ESL Settings

________ LING 522 Modern English Grammar

              (Prerequisite: One course in
              linguistics or permission of instructor)

________ LING 523 Descriptive Aspects of English

               Phonetics and Phonology

________LING 525 Practicum in ESL

________ LING 582 Second Language Acquisition

               (Prerequisite: LING 520, 690, or 786, or

               permission of instructor)

TOTAL HOURS: 18

Approved Electives for the TESL Certificate

LING 507 Internship in Applied Linguistics
LING 581 Psycholinguistics
ENGL 592 History of the English Language
ENGL 615 Proseminar in Composition Instruction
LING 690 Generative Phonology
LING 785 Semantics and Pragmatics
LING 786 Syntax I
ENGL 798 Directed Reading and Research in Linguistics
EDCI 516 Bilingual and Language Acquisition Research (formerly EDUC 532)
EDCI 517 Bilingual Education
EDCI 518 Multicultural Education
EDCI 520 Assessment in Bilingual/ESL Settings
EDCI 521 Curriculum Development in Bilingual/ESL Settings
EDCI 549 Foreign Language Immersion in Elementary School
EDCI 550 Teaching Foreign Languages in the Secondary School
EDRD 559 Teaching Developmental Reading in the Elementary School
EDRD 613 Diagnostic and Evaluative Techniques in Reading
EDRD 614 Teaching Reading in the Secondary School
EDRD 615 Teaching Reading/Writing in Multicultural/Multilingual Setting
EDRD 616 Teaching Reading to Adults
EDUC 529 Pluralism and Exceptionality in US Education
EDUC 606 Education and Culture (formerly EDUC 506)
FREN 571 Applied French Linguistics
FREN 575 Grammatical Analysis
SPAN 501 Applied Spanish Grammar
SPAN 502 Hispanic Sociolinguistics

This is not an exhaustive list of electives. See your TESL advisor for further information.