Teaching English to Speakers of Other Language
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Minimum Program Hours
Program Graduation Requirements
No grade below a B will count toward the Graduate TESOL course requirements.
Students may count one transferred course toward the TESOL certificate courses. Transferred courses must be approved by the TESOL Certificate advisor.
All students wishing to receive the TESOL Certificate must pay a non-refundable processing fee of $55.
Students must notify the academic advisor of certificate completion two months before the last day of classes of the semester which the student completes the certificate.
Certificate Type
Embedded certificates are conferred concurrently with a degree.
Stand Alone certificates are conferred to a student who is not seeking a degree.
Complete five of the following courses
LING 6025: Second Language Acquisition
LING 6810: L2 Methodology or WLC 6410: L2 Methodology
LING 6812: Content-Based Instruction
LING 6813: Practicum
LING 6816: Course and Curriculum Design
LING 6818: L2 Test Design
One approved elective
Complete a beginning level foreign language course. May be taken within two years prior to entering the program. Should include at least 30 classroom hours in foreign language instruction. The purpose of language requirement is to provide students with a recent experience of basic foreign language classroom instruction.