English as a Second Language

This course focuses on word-level English grammar with an emphasis on verb forms and tenses and on high-frequency sentence structures, complex verb forms required in academic English, and syntax, including adverb and adjective clauses.

Develops conversational fluency for a variety of situations, both academic and non-academic. Activities include giving classroom presentations as well as asking and responding to questions.

Improves reading skills through investigation of texts relevant to the academic environment.

This course includes more advanced work on sentence structure and paragraph writing.

This course focuses on the sentence-level grammar, mechanics, and syntax required in academic writing. Topics include conditional sentences; adverb, adjective, and noun clauses; reductions of clauses; and sentence connectors.

This course is designed to further develop conversational skills by incorporating more complicated vocabulary, idioms and phrases, and grammatical structures.

Trains students to write compound and complex sentences, to correct common sentence errors, to incorporate basic research methods into writing, and to write well-organized paragraphs and short essays.   Prepares ESL students for EN 130.

This course surveys the curricular methods used for teaching English language learners. Learners will explore the variety of organizational methods for curricular development according to their specific goals, objectives, and outcomes as instructors of English as a second or foreign language (ESL/EFL). 

The course surveys the variety of teaching methods used with English language learners with a practical emphasis on the application of those methods. As part of the course, learners will participate in an instructional language laboratory where they will identify a linguistic need for intervention and then create and assess a language learning intervention with an English language learner.  

This course surveys the various linguistic theories of second language acquisition. Both generativist and functional approaches are explored with a focus on the evidence underlying theory development. In addition, second language acquisition research methods are discussed with an emphasis on data collection and analysis.