EDEC 30233 Education in Elementary Curriculum: English as a Second Language (ESL)
Prerequisite: Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent enrollment in Junior II courses. Principles and practices of first and second language acquisition in early childhood settings. Emphasis on the interrelatedness of language processing (reading, writing, speaking and listening) to facilitate the learner's ability to construct meaning. Strategies to enhance social-communicative and cognitive-academic language competencies are addressed. Assessment procedures appropriate to English language learners (ELL) are introduced.