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LINGUISTICS FOR TEACHERS

CURRIC 338
Course Description

Addresses aspects of forms, features and functions of the English language, including an understanding of multiple varieties and registers of English, and how language use functions in and out of schools. Attention to the emergent bilingual students' use of dual/multiple languages, varieties, registers, and discourses, relationships between first and additional languages, and ways to support students as they develop linguistic repertoires that include particular varieties of language that can help facilitate school success.

Prerequisites

Declared in Elementary Education: Kindergarten - 9th Grade, BSE and English as a Second Language Minor

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

Not Reported

Offered

Not Reported

Grade Point Average
4

2.68% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

No change from Historical

A Rate
100%

16.15% from Historical

Class Size
34

23.84% from Historical

Cumulative Grade Distribution

Instructors (2026 Summr)

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