TSL 501 - Literacy Development in Multilingual Communities Part I: Reading

Credits: 3
This course examines the theory and practice of providing educational services to the culturally and linguistically diverse students in U.S. school with particular emphasis on reading instruction. Through active research, participants will investigate the role of oral language proficiency, content areas, heritage language literacy, bilingual education, and multicultural literature and they will develop a project to facilitate literacy development for English learner students.