Course Catalog

EDUC 320 is a required course for students seeking Teacher Certification in grades K-12 for world language teaching at St. Norbert College. In this course, pre-service teachers explore approaches, methods, and materials for teaching second and world languages in k-12 classrooms from the perspectives of second language acquisition (SLA) research and through a constructivist theoretical and philosophical lens. This methods course is organized around the World readiness standards commonly referred to as the Five Cs: Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities. Particular emphasis is placed on implementing communicative and task-based approaches to promoting language skills and language learning strategies. This course emphasizes the development of effective decision making by constantly drawing connections between theory and practice and encouraging reflection on students’ language learning and teaching experience.