The Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Graduate Certificate program is designed to provide linguistic and pedagogical instruction to teachers of students whose first language is not English.
This program is ideal for those individuals who plan to teach English abroad, in U.S. colleges, community groups and organizations, or in international schools. The program will provide needed support to instructors working with adult learners of English in area community programs and to instructors already teaching introductory writing courses at area institutions of higher learning, where an increasingly diverse population of students requires skills in teaching reading and writing to students with limited proficiency in English.
The TESOL Graduate Certificate program is also an ideal program for professional development of public school teachers and will provide a solid preparation for the MTEL® (Massachusetts Test for Educator Licensure) in English as a Second Language.
This graduate certificate program will, therefore, provide much-needed theory, practices, and strategies for preparing teachers to work with linguistically diverse populations in various educational environments.
The program is interdisciplinary with course offerings in the Department of English and the College of Education, and it offers high-quality courses in linguistics and TESOL.
For updated information about this certificate program, including its curriculum and requirements, prospective students should contact Dr. Julia Stakhnevich at jstakhnevich@bridgew.edu or Dr. Ken Dobush at kdobush@bridgew.edu.