RDG 356 - Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

Credit Hours: 3

Explores the theories and research in first and second language acquisition and reading, writing, listening, and speaking instruction of children with linguistic, cultural, ethnic, and racial differences. Students design a Family Literacy plan to enhance parent involvement and literacy development of all members of the family. Fieldwork includes interviews with learners at various stages of English language development, including a newly arrived immigrant student. Using information from those interviews, students develop appropriate instructional practices for teaching reading, listening, speaking, and writing for the interviewees. Students translate a newsletter into the native speaker’s language and have their translation critiqued by a speaker of that language.

Prerequisite: SOE admission and B- or better in EDU 321 or EDU 322
Minimum Grade Required C