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Foundations of Bilingual EducationK-12 (ELE 601R)

Term: 2021-2022 Spring

Faculty

Linda Santiago-Gonzalez Ed.D.
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Description

This course is based on the standards and principles of WIDA ("World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment") that guide the linguistic development related to the teaching of students with various linguistic and cultural resources. Through a diversity of literature review and language development-related research, emerging and effective instructional practices will be discussed and applied for bilingual students through various academic content. The ideological foundations, philosophic educational models, methodologies, strategies for bilingual teaching, the different approaches of bilingual education, and the impact of each of these will be presented for the student. In addition, the characteristics, design, development and measurement of bilingual education, as well as the behavioral, psycholinguistic, neurolinguistic and inclusion, identity and equity aspects will be presented. Emphasis is placed on the discussion of national and international laws, policies or other practices th