Teaching English Second Lang (TESL)

TESL 3950:   Second Language Acquisition  
Modern Languages  
Students in this course will discuss critical SLA theories and methods as well as evaluate SLA research.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LING 2000 and 24 earned hours.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5000:   Lang. Use in Amer Universities  
Modern Languages  
This course offers international students an introduction to disciplinary-specific language use in American universities.  
3 credits  
TESL 5090:   Semantics  
Modern Languages  
This course is a study of word meaning in human languages, especially English, history, issues, and theories of semantics.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5150:   Approaches to Discourse  
Modern Languages  
Theories of discourse and discourse analysis, including methodologies for the study of language texts.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5250:   Pidgins and Creoles  
Modern Languages  
This course includes a survey of the origins and diversity of pidgins and creoles around the world, an examination of characteristics of groups of creoles, and discussion of contributions to sociolinguistics and human language in general.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5300:   Pragmatics  
Modern Languages  
The study of language in context including speech acts, conversational structure, implicature, presupposition, and politeness.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5360:   Dialects of American English  
Modern Languages  
An investigation of the formation of and variation within American English dialects.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LING 2000 or TESL 6000.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5370:   Language Variation  
Modern Languages  
Study of the development of current ideas about language variation.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5380:   Lang., Gender, and Sexuality  
Modern Languages  
Students will study the relationship among language, gender, and sexuality from local and global perspectives.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5450:   Indigenous Lang.s & Pedagogies  
Modern Languages  
Examination of the issues, policies, theoretical foundations, and practices of indigenous peoples and other language minority communities from a sociolinguistic and language reclamation perspective.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5480:   Forensic Linguistics  
Modern Languages  
Students will examine the complex relationship between language and the law through a multidisciplinary investigation of spoken and written texts as they relate to criminal or civil disputes. Course content will be composed of three basic categories: spoken texts, written texts, and legal issues involving language.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5490:   Intercultural Communication  
Modern Languages  
Analysis of situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5500:   Lang. Use in Amer Universities  
Modern Languages  
This course offers international students an introduction to disciplinary-specific language use in American universities.  
3 credits  
TESL 5590:   Semantics  
Modern Languages  
This course is a study of word meaning in human languages, especially English, history, issues, and theories of semantics.  
3 credits  
TESL 5650:   Approaches to Discourse  
Modern Languages  
Theories of discourse and discourse analysis, including methodologies for the study of language texts.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5750:   Pidgins and Creoles  
Modern Languages  
This course includes a survey of the origins and diversity of pidgins and creoles around the world, an examination of characteristics of groups of creoles, and discussion of contributions to sociolinguistics and human language in general.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5800:   Pragmatics  
Modern Languages  
The study of language in context including speech acts, conversational structure, implicature, presupposition, and politeness.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5860:   Dialects of American English  
Modern Languages  
An investigation of the formation of and variation within American English dialects.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LING 2000 or TESL 6000.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5870:   Language Variation  
Modern Languages  
Study of the development of current ideas about language variation.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5880:   Lang., Gender, and Sexuality  
Modern Languages  
Students will study the relationship among language, gender, and sexuality from local and global perspectives.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5950:   Indigenous Lang.s & Pedagogies  
Modern Languages  
Examination of the issues, policies, theoretical foundations, and practices of indigenous peoples and other language minority communities from a sociolinguistic and language reclamation perspective.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture  
TESL 5980:   Forensic Linguistics  
Modern Languages  
Students will examine the complex relationship between language and the law through a multidisciplinary investigation of spoken and written texts as they relate to criminal or civil disputes. Course content will be composed of three basic categories: spoken texts, written texts, and legal issues involving language.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 5990:   Intercultural Communication  
Modern Languages  
Analysis of situated communication between individuals or groups of different linguistic and cultural origins.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 6000:   Fndmtls. of Ling. for TESL  
Modern Languages  
Fundamentals of the field of linguistics for the Teaching of English as a Second Language.  
3 credits  
TESL 6120:   Seminar in Phonology  
Modern Languages  
Basic concepts about sounds of human languages, using English as the primary source of data; current theoretical trends in the organization of sound systems.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 6140:   Seminar in Morphology  
Modern Languages  
Analysis of methods of describing any given language and of reconstructing its history, with outside papers emphasizing students own linguistic interests.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 6160:   Seminar in Syntax  
Modern Languages  
Concepts about phrases and sentences of human languages, using English as the primary source of data; current theoretical trends in the analysis of sentences.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 6200:   Seminar in Sociolinguistics  
Modern Languages  
This course will cover sociolinguistic theoretical models and methodologies, as well as foundational concepts and definitions.  
3 credits  
Prerequisites
LING 6000.  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Seminar  
TESL 6800:   Crit. Issues in App. Ling.  
Modern Languages  
Topics vary.  
3 credits  
Potentially offered with the following Instruction Type(s):
Lecture