The Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) provides training in the theory and practice of TESOL, with application to a wide variety of teaching circumstances.
Grading Requirement
All courses taken to fulfill program course requirements must be taken for a letter grade except those courses specified by the department as credit/no credit grading only.
A GPA of 2.5 is required for all courses taken for the certificate.
Course Requirements for the Certificate
The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this certificate.
Course List
| Course |
Title |
Units |
| ENGL 371 | Principles of Language | 3 |
| ENGL 472 | Pedagogical Grammar | 3 |
| ENGL 470 | Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition | 3 |
| ENGL 478 | Approaches to Reading | 3 |
| 9-10 |
| Theory and Practice in Tutoring Composition | |
| Syntactic and Morphological Analysis | |
| Phonological Analysis (W) | |
| Semantics: Language and Meaning | |
| Total Units | 21-22 |
