University of Nebraska at Kearney
College of Fine Arts and Humanities
1994-96 UNK Undergraduate Catalog
Department of Foreign Languages
The endorsement program for teachers of English as a Second Language prepares students
to serve as cultural interpreters and English language acquisition facilitators for
non-English speaking students, both adult and youth as well as children.
The teachers of English as a Second Language develop the following competencies:
- 1. A competency and an understanding of English as a language among world languages;
- 2. A competency in cultural understanding and sensitivity to other cultures and an
awareness of those elements of the American society which are arbitrarily and culturally
determined;
- 3. A competency in the methodologies and curriculum research and design for the teaching
of ESL to adults and children.
- A. General Studies Program - 45 hours
- B. Professional Sequence in Education - 22 hours
- C. Teaching of English as a Second Language Subject Endorsement (TESL) - 30 hours
- D. One Subject Endorsement other than TESL - 30-39 hours
- E. Electives to total - 125 hours
- 1. TESL (Both required) 6 hours
- FORL 470 Teaching English To Speakers of Other Languages
I - 3
- FORL 472 Methods of Teaching Foreign Languages - 3
- 2. Language/Linguistics - 18 hours
- ENG 304 Grammar I - General Transformational Grammar - 3
- ENG 303 * Introduction to Linguistics - 3
- *required courses for all students
- ENG 311 Advanced Writing - 3
- ENG 404 History of the English Language - 3
- ENG 424 Teaching of Secondary School English - 3
- ENG 423 ** Reading Problems of Secondary Students - 3
- ELED 405** Analysis and Correction of Reading
Difficulties - 3
- **either ENG 423 or ELED 405 required
- SPCH 450 General Semantics - 3
- 3. Cultural Electives (Choose two) - 6 hours
- PSCI 268GS Introduction to International Politics - 3
- GEOG 106GS Cultural Geography - 3
- SOC 250GS Anthropology - 3
- SPCH 454 Intercultural Communication - 3
The goal of transitional bilingual education is to prepare children for life in the
English-speaking mainstream while providing instruction in basic reading, arithmetic and
other coursework in their native language in the early grades.
The bilingual teacher develops the following competencies:
- 1. An understanding of English as a language among other languages;
- 2. An understanding of the target population's language;
- 3. Cultural understanding and a sensitivity to the target population's culture and an
awareness of those elements which are determined arbitrarily and culturally in the
American society;
- 4. Competency in the methodologies, curricula, research, and the learning activities for
successful bilingual teaching. This additional endorsement is administered jointly by the
Colleges of Fine Arts and Humanities (Foreign Languages) and Education. It is available to
students majoring in Elementary Education or Special Education.
- A. Language Proficiency for the target population
(to be determined by proficiency examination or advanced coursework in a foreign language)
- B. Required courses in cultural background - 9 hours
- SOC 250GS Anthropology - 3
- SPAN 475 Contemporary Mexico - 3
- SPAN 475A Historic Mexico - 3
- C. Required courses in linguistics - 6 hours
- ENG 304 Grammar I - 3
- SPAN 408 Comparative Spanish/English Grammar - 3
- D. Approved Bilingual Methodological courses - 15 hours
- FORL 470 TESOL I - 3
- FORL 472 Foreign Language Methods - 3
- The following three courses are usually taken in a Spanish-speaking country under the
auspices of the University of Nebraska at Kearney International Studies Program.
- Teaching of Reading (bilingual) - 3
- Teaching of Mathematics (bilingual) - 3
- Teaching of Science (bilingual) - 3
- E. Approved Field Experience in a Bilingual Setting - 17 hours
- ELED 390 Pro Lab Experience (assigned to bilingual/ESL
classroom) - 2
- PTE 400 Student Teaching (assigned in bilingual
classroom)15
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