ENG 531 - Principles and Practices of TESOL

• Plan and modify instruction at an advanced level to assure learner engagement and achievement.
• Explain in great detail how to create supportive environments that promote respectful classroom interactions and engage all learners in purposeful language learning.
• Discuss and assess ways to gather and interpret information about learning and performance to promote the continuous intellectual and linguistic development of each learner.
• Explain in great detail the importance of knowing who learners are and understanding how their communities, heritages, and goals shape learning and expectations of learning.
• Demonstrate advanced proficiency in social, business/workplace or academic. English, with attention to the four traditional skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing.
• Apply their higher-level understanding of the processes by which learners acquire a new language in and out of classroom settings to support adult language learning.
• Design advanced lessons to help learners acquire the language they need to successfully communicate in the subject or content areas they want/need to learn about.