EDU 213 - Cultural Politics of Language Teaching

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

This course will focus primarily on issues critical to the teaching and learning of English in the United States and abroad. Concepts of language ideology, personal identity, and international development will be used as analytical frames for examining language policy, language instruction, and language shift. Multilingualism, the needs of U.S. English language learners, and the politics of heritage language maintenance will also be examined. This course fills a 200-level course elective for the Linguistics Concentration. This course is required for a teacher licensure candidate earning the ESL endorsement.

Prerequisite: EDU 101 with grade S, C, or better.
Note: Plus-2 option available.
Instructor: Jakubiak