Fall 2020

Teaching Reading and Writing to ESOL/Bilingual Students II (EDUC 655) – This course analyzes theories, research, and approaches to teaching writing to second-language learners at the intermediate and advanced level. Included are discussions of academic, professional and creative writing; cultural contrasts in rhetorical styles and tradition; and the use of fanfiction writing projects. It also incorporates materials developed as part of the FanTALES project for the teaching of multilingual interactive digital storytelling. This class is taught in an asynchronous online format with optional one hour synchronous online mentoring sessions offered weekly.

Theories of Language Learning in the ESOL Classroom (EDUC 670) -This course covers current theories of how second language is learned, providing participants a greater understanding of the processes involved in language acquisition and how English language learners’ (ELL’s) personal characteristics influence this process. In addition to this theoretical foundation, this class also incorporates a virtual exchange with a partner classes at Malmö University in Sweden and the Universidad de León in Spain with a particular focus on COVID and its impact on education in the three partner contexts.  This class is taught in an asynchronous online format with optional one hour synchronous online mentoring sessions offered weekly.

Master’s Thesis Research (EDUC 799) – Supervision of MA thesis writing by Christina Crawford, whose research analysed the representation of culture from and English as an International Language perspective in textbooks used to teach English at the secondary level in Austria.