Intercultural Communication and Language Pedagogy

Catalog description

This course introduces educators to the sociocultural contexts that impact language teaching, learning and acquisition to support and ensure the development of equitable and inclusive classroom and school environments for multilingual learners of English. Educators will examine and assess the role that intercultural communication plays in how and why teachers and learners behave and communicate as they do. At the completion of this course, educators will be able to identify, understand, and explain real and potential communication breakdowns in instructional and assessment practices that impact language learning and acquisition. They will be able to recommend and design instructional and assessment strategies that demonstrate and build intercultural awareness and communication skills in teachers of multilingual learners of English and learners themselves.