- Language Acquisition & Art for Young Children: Spanish

Catalog description

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to explain and discuss the developmental process of language acquisition from birth to age eight. Student will be able to explain and discuss contextualize factors that influence the emergence of language including current demographics, age, gender, family dynamics, multilingual environments, and cultural experiences. Students will be able to discuss a variety of planning techniques to create a language rich environment for diverse young children by incorporating language learning and early literacy experiences. Students will be able to discuss observations strategies to inform assessment and curricular choices. Ten hours of observation are required. This course is taught in Spanish.