Program Overview

Graduate Certificate in TESOL Education

The Graduate Certificate in TESOL Education provides graduates with practical, theoretical, and critical knowledge of the English language and methods for teaching it in various social and academic settings. Courses required for the certificate promote reflective inquiry, provide students with the necessary tools for ongoing professional growth, serve as models of effective pedagogy, and introduce students to the various ways in which instruction can be enhanced by contemporary technologies.

Learning Objectives

1. Enable graduates to teach English as a foreign or second language in the U.S. and abroad.
2. Evaluate the relative utility and validity of diverse teaching methodologies.
3. Develop materials for unique teaching/learning situations.
4. Evaluate recent research in applied linguistics and its relevance to EFL/ESL teaching and learning.

Program Details

• Course List Code | Title | Credits
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  E 514| Phonology/Morphology-ESL/EFL| 3
  E 515| Syntax for ESL/EFL| 3
  E 526| Teaching English as a Foreign/Second Language| 3
  E 527| Theories of Foreign/Second Language Learning| 3
  E 528| Professional ESL Teaching: Theory to Practice| 3
• Program Total Credits: 15
• Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.
• This certificate may have courses in common with other graduate certificates. A student may earn more than one certificate, but a given course may be counted only in one certificate.