EDUC 592 - Teaching Language and Literacy across Content Areas

Credit Hours: 3

This course will address major theories and instructional strategies related to supporting the development of academic language across content areas, focusing specifically on how teachers of all disciplinary backgrounds can support all students including English Language Learners, students from historically marginalized communities, and readers at a range of proficiency levels to develop sophisticated forms of language use in particular content areas. Course topics include content-specific instructional strategies for supporting English Language Learners and students from marginalized communities to speak, read, write, listen, and think in ways consummate with the expectations of a discipline, and using inquiry, collaboration, composition, content-area reading strategies as supports for all students’ learning across the content-areas.