LAE 3332 - Applied Linguistics for Teachers

3 credits
Prerequisites: Admission into the Bachelor of Science in Education program or special permission from the Associate Dean of the School of Education; and prior to enrolling in any upper level course (course number beginning with a 3 or 4), students must complete the following courses with a grade of “C” or better: ENC 1101 - Composition I , ENC 1102 - Composition II , and three semester hours of college level mathematics; or permission from the appropriate academic Dean
This course is designed to prepare teacher candidates with contemporary approaches to English linguistics as taught in Florida public secondary schools. In this course teacher candidates will examine English language grammar, usage, dialectology, diction, vocabulary development, semantics and lexicography. The linguistic content will be related to contemporary theories of teaching and learning in addition to theories of language acquisition.