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Graduate Certificate in English as a Second Language Program Specialist Postbaccalaureate Credit Certificate Program at Pennsylvania State University

Pennsylvania State University, United States

Programme overview

The postbaccalaureate ESL Program Specialist Certificate is designed to give teachers the essential knowledge and skills to effectively work with English learners, their families, and communities in public school (K-12) contexts. Students are required to take five three-credit courses which correspond to the ESL Program Specialist K-12 Program Guidelines of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. It involves 15 credit hours of course work, including 60 hours of integrated field experience.

Faculty: The Graduate School  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: University Park, PA, United States

What you will study

Courses include Foundations of Language in Second Language Teaching, Language, Culture and the Classroom: Issues for Practitioners, Discourse-Functional Grammar, Teaching English as a Second Language.

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Entry requirements

Applicants to the English as a Second Language certificate program must have a minimum TOEFL score of 100 with a 23 on the speaking section for the Internet-based test (iBT), or a 600 on the paper-based test.

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