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English 345: Week 1

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Welcome to English 345, TESOLers!

Course Description As the number of English language learners in the U.S. increases rapidly, there is an urgent need to understand the academic needs of ethnolinguistically diverse student population. Today, the reality of globalization and the immigration requires all pre-service and in-service teachers to become knowledgeable and culturally-sensitive about the affective ways to help students’ improve their literacy skills both in English and in their home languages. In this context, it is crucial that all teachers are equipped with the necessary tools to create optimal learning environments for ethnolinguistically diverse students, and move beyond “one-size fits all” approaches which, most of the time, do not take into consideration the socio-cultural and linguistic differences of diverse student population. With this in mind, this course aims to help pre-service teachers advance their knowledge on how to develop pedagogical practices that accommodate academic and sociocultural needs of the 21st century’s diverse classroom contexts. Drawing on the principles of postmethod pedagogy and socioculturally oriented language education, the primary goal of this course is to prepare pre-service teachers to develop context-specific and culturally appropriate pedagogical spaces and artifacts for diverse student population.