EDUC 175

Pedagogy and Academic Language Skills in Spanish for Bilingual Educators

This course is designed to provide participants background and foundational knowledge in Standard Spanish language use, language varieties in Spanish, issues of power and language in our society, academic language use, and bilingual methods. Participants will examine theoretical and practical issues in bilingual language use in society and in the classroom. Participants will learn and apply bilingual teaching methods, will analyze children's bilingual language use, and also will evaluate Spanish medium texts and trade books.

Units: 3.0