CLD 505 - TESOL Reading

3 Credit(s)

This course introduces students interested in questions of language acquisition to the theories and practices relating to learning to read in a second language or second dialect. Topics included are models for acquiring foreign language reading skills, teaching strategies for second language/dialect literacy, evaluating literacy skills, current research about acquisition of literacy skills, and political and social implications of second language/dialect literacy. The content addresses specifics about teaching reading for ELL/ CLD populations in classrooms. Opportunity is provided for candidates to become familiar with resources and data on school populations. The main goal of this course is to assist practicing or prospective teachers to learn how to promote development or crucial reading skills among ELL students. The course seeks to reexamine the pedagogical issues central to the 2L reading classroom, to be able to select suitable materials, to develop appropriate reading activities, to identify valid assessment measures, and to plan effective reading lessons suitable for instruction of ESL/CLD students.