EDUR 6222 Applied Linguistics: A Second Language Acquisition/Bilingual Instructional Perspective

3 semester hours

This course provides the linguistic foundations for language educators from an instructional perspective. English language systems and the use and variations of the English language in social/linguistic contexts are closely examined. Students will be able to integrate pedagogical approaches to the principles of the language systems in teaching ELLs and assessing their interlanguage development. Topics of emphasis: phonology, grammar, lexicon, discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and constrative analysis.