Advanced English & Spanish Academic Language Development for Emergent Bilinguals

Catalog description

This course is designed for bilingual educators who work with bilingual education programs as teachers, instructional specialists, or administrators. Analysis and application of research-based approaches to oral and written language (English and Spanish) development for K-12 students who are becoming bilingual and biliterate. Creation, formal presentation, and evaluation of Spanish language arts instruction to native speakers of Spanish and of English language instruction to students not yet proficient in English. Advanced Spanish proficiency required. Prerequisites: Doctoral level standing or consent of the instructor. Advanced Spanish proficiency. Crosslisted with: BLED 502 .