- The MENG Program, and the undergraduate/graduate ESL Minor/Endorsment courses help students master the following learning outcomes:
- Learning Outcome 1: Gather, analyze, and communicate information effectively as well as think creatively and critically. You will develop these skills as you complete your weekly textbook reading log, through seminar and small group discussion during class, and as you make your two presentations during the semester, presenting to the class your micro teaching unit and your semester project
- Learning Outcome 2: Cultivated skills in close reading, critical thinking, logical argument from evidence presented, creative expression, and persuasive writing. These skills will be developed throughout the experiences of this course, both inside and outside class, and especially in the research for your final project paper.
- Learning Outcome 3: Apply various theoretical perspectives and literary terminology to interpretations of literary texts to showcase an understanding of theoretical perspectives. In this course, by means of our primary and secondary texts and materials, you will study the literature of TESOL, linguistics, intercultural communication, and its current and long-term history of research terminology and theoretical perspectives.
- Learning Outcome 4: Acknowledge and articulate the significance of key primary text(s) in one specific literary genre, period, culture or style. An important aspect of this course will be to identify your own primary teaching/learning situation, elementary school, middle school, high school, adult/university, and its unique learner age & grade level, culture, and linguistic background affecting instruction and learning.
- Learning Outcome 5: Demonstrate knowledge of an interaction with current scholarly criticism. TESOL methodology is diverse and informs the meaningful contributions of all stakeholders, teachers, students, parents, administrators, government, and community members. Rather than focusing on the adoption of one particular method for all teaching situations, TESOL scholarly work consists of a variety of well-informed, but often differing, approaches to both theory and method. Your course project will include research on these multiple perspectives, and we will constantly be considering them during our in-class seminars and workshops.
- Learning Outcome 6: Ability to employ academic conventions and protocols for written or multimodal presentations, including the application of appropriate conventions, citation formats and style manuals. TESOL writing and research commonly follows APA format. English literature programs often use MLA. You will notice these styles, and other conventions as we read the primary and secondary literature of TESOL and its contributing fields: linguistics, writing, and intercultural communication.