Linguistics for Teachers of Emergent Bilinguals

This course is designed to deepen educator’s knowledge and skills on evidence-based practices to help Multilingual Learners (MLLs) succeed academically and contains six modules, covering the development of oral and written language over five stages of language acquisition. Each module contains a video lecture, readings, a quiz, and workbook activities Participants will:(1) develop an understanding of language as a system of knowledge and its individual components (pragmatics & world knowledge, phonology, morphology, the lexicon (vocabulary knowledge), and syntax; (2) gain awareness of the stages of language acquisition, both oral and written, to differentiate instruction; (3) expand expertise in integrating the teaching of linguistic skills in English into their content area and grade through the instructor’s modeling of specific strategies and (4) analyze curriculum for content and language, and practice integrating the explicit teaching of linguistic skills with content through workbook activities.

Date: 9/23/2024-6/23/2025 (rolling registration)
Location: asynchronous
Link to register: https://www.mylearningplan.com/WebReg/ActivityProfile.asp?D=15197&I=4869397