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Bilingualism, Second Language, and Literacy Acquisition听

Course 2

This course is designed to provide practitioners with exposure to contemporary theory and research in bilingualism and literacy, with an eye toward instructional applications. The content covered in this course applies across any instructional context in which multilingual learners are present. Such settings include: Transitional and dual language bilingual education, ESL, SEI, and 鈥渕ainstream鈥� classrooms. The course is a hybrid course model, with a majority of coursework taking place online, with periodic face-to-face meetings, and assignments that are meant to interface with your day-to-day responsibilities as a teacher, interventionist, specialist, or administrator.

Bilingual Literacy and Literature

Course 3

Bilingual Literacy and Literature is one of two courses devoted to praxis, which is the application of theory to practice to promote change and evolution in teaching. As Freire (1972) put it, "For apart from inquiry, apart from the praxis, individuals cannot be truly human" (p. 72). Applied to our work in the Bilingual Education Certificate, the history and theory we covered in the Foundations and Bilingualism courses are centered in thinking about how they apply to teaching. Also centered is remote/hybrid learning in a pandemic, which cannot be ignored. It is important to note here that praxis 鈥渃annot occur through antidialogical professional development. Instead, bilingual teachers must be positioned as knowledgeable beings whose lived cultural and linguistic realities drive generative learning in professional development鈥� (Stacy et al., 2020). That is the orientation of this course as well. You, the bilingual educators who are participating in it, are the ones who bring knowledge to bear on the work we do.