Linguistics for of Teachers of ELL/ESL

Independent Learning Courses: These online courses provide teachers with affordable opportunities to complete course work that is interesting, and relevant. Once your registration is completed you will receive an email within 24 hours with access to the course material. You must complete the work within 3 months in order to receive credit for the course. Instructor and technical assistance is available but you complete the work at your own pace.

This course acquaints the learner with the linguistic needs of ELL/ESL students. Course includes the design and implementation of strategies and interventions targeted to specific linguistic needs identified in their ELL/ESL classrooms related to phonetics, phonology, semantics, pragmatics, morphology, syntax, typology, orthography, linguistic advocacy, grammar, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. Specific topics in sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics will be analyzed with a focus on improving the overall instruction of ELL/ESL students.

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