ELL Strategies and Practice for Early Childhood Education

Catalog description

This course will focus on the development of competencies and skills needed to effectively teach students whose first language is not English so that teacher candidates can accommodate and adapt instruction and assessments for Pre-K through Grade 4 English Language Learners (ELLs) In addition, this course is designed to provide pre-service early childhood educators with the scientific study of psycholinguistic phenomena in the study of language acquisition, to understand development of typical and atypical oral language in young children from birth to age 9, and to understand cultural and familial influences on language and literacy. Students with a semester level of Freshman 1 or Freshman 2 may not enroll.