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Twin Cities Campus

Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Postbaccalaureate Certificate

Curriculum & Instruction
College of Education and Human Development
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Contact Information
Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 125 Peik Hall, 159 Pillsbury Drive S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-4006; fax: 612-624-8277)
Email: CIinfo@umn.edu
Website: http://cehd.umn.edu/ci
  • Program Type: Post-baccalaureate credit certificate/licensure/endorsement
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2023
  • Length of program in credits: 12
  • This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.
  • Degree: Adv Prac in Second Lang Teaching Pbacc Cert
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of this website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
The University of Minnesota's Advanced Practices in Second Language Teaching Certificate program is designed for teachers of foreign languages and English as a second/foreign language and is offered by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in partnership with the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) Summer Institute Program. Courses are offered on the Twin Cities campus or online. The certificate may be completed independently or in conjunction with a Master of Education (MEd) degree in second language education at the University of Minnesota. Although the University certificate does not lead to teaching licensure or state certification, it adds value to a pre-service or in-service teacher's academic program and professional life. Completion of the advanced practices in second language teaching certificate includes successful participation in a set of internationally recognized, high-quality summer institutes for language teaching as well as courses in the Second Language Education program and provides a vehicle for teachers to receive tangible recognition of preparation in advanced language teaching practices and methodologies.
Program Delivery
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
  • completely online (all program coursework can be completed online)
  • partially online (between 50% to 80% of instruction is online)
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program is 2.80.
A completed bachelor's degree is required for admission.
Special Application Requirements:
Applicants must submit transcripts from every college attended (even those where a degree wasn't earned), scores from the TOEFL/IELTS/MELAB (if applicable), a resume, and a one-page personal statement discussing your experience teaching languages and the ways this certificate program will contribute to your professional development. Certificate applications are reviewed by the department three times per academic year: Fall, Spring and Summer.
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
  • TOEFL
    • Internet Based - Total Score: 79
    • Internet Based - Writing Score: 21
    • Internet Based - Reading Score: 19
    • Paper Based - Total Score: 550
  • IELTS
    • Total Score: 6.5
  • MELAB
    • Final score: 80
The preferred English language test is Test of English as Foreign Language.
Key to test abbreviations (TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.
Program Requirements
Use of 4xxx courses towards program requirements is not permitted.
A minimum GPA of 2.80 is required for students to remain in good standing.
Core Courses (8 credits)
Select at least 1 course from each of the 3 focus areas, in consultation with the advisor, for a minimum total of 8 credits. Other courses can be chosen with advisor approval.
Technology and Language Teaching
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar (1.0-4.0 cr)
· CI 5668 - Transforming the Teaching of Language Online (TTLO) (3.0 cr)
· LGTT 5110 - Technology in the Second Language Classroom (2.0 cr)
· LGTT 5111 - Using the Web for Communicative Language Learning (2.0 cr)
Cultural, Social, and Equity Issues in Language Teaching
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar (1.0-4.0 cr)
· CI 5621 - Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom (2.0 cr)
· CI 5629 - Teaching Language through the Lens of Social Justice (2.0 cr)
· CI 5638 - Critical Approaches to Heritage Language Education (2.0 cr)
· CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education (3.0 cr)
Innovations in Curriculum, Instruction & Assessment
Take 1 or more course(s) from the following:
· CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar (1.0-4.0 cr)
· CI 5619 - Teaching World Languages and Cultures in Elementary Settings (2.0 cr)
· CI 5624 - Content-based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development (2.0 cr)
· CI 5625 - Assessing Language Learners? Communication Skills via Authentic Communicative Performance Tasks (2.0 cr)
· CI 5627 - Creativity in the Second Language Classroom (2.0 cr)
· CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
· CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms (3.0 cr)
· CI 5658 - Language Testing and Assessment (3.0 cr)
· CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design (3.0 cr)
· CI 5667 - Using Target Language Texts to Support Students' Literacies Development (2.0 cr)
Elective Courses
Select electives from Second Language Education program courses in consultation with the advisor to complete the 12-credit requirement.
 
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CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) offers a series of intensive summer institutes to provide timely professional development for foreign language and ESL educators throughout the country. The special topics offered under CI 5608 are designed to provide language teachers with the latest research-based information and best practices skill development as the field of language instruction evolves. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world.
CI 5668 - Transforming the Teaching of Language Online (TTLO)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Transforming the Teaching of Language Online (TTLO) is for experienced classroom language teachers who want to transition to teaching their language class online. Offered completely online, TTLO will give teachers the first-hand experience of being an online learner while focusing on the important elements of a successful online language class such as online course design guidelines, best practices for online teaching, comparing online to traditional language teaching, and incorporating appropriate technology tools for communicative-based online activities. In addition to delving into these aspects of online teaching, participants will see them in action by taking part in model online language activities as language learners. By the end of the program, participants will have a portfolio of activities ready to be incorporated in an online language course.
LGTT 5110 - Technology in the Second Language Classroom
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: LgTT 5101/LgTT 5110
Typically offered: Every Spring & Summer
Examine, evaluate, and use technology in language teaching. Theoretical background, demonstration, hands-on exploration.
LGTT 5111 - Using the Web for Communicative Language Learning
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
This is a fully online course that is intended for K­16 second language instructors who are looking for ways to increase their knowledge of web applications and ways to incorporate them into their second language curriculum to encourage student communication and collaboration. Participants can expect to learn effective ways to incorporate current web technology into their curriculum to promote written and spoken language comprehension and production, and interpersonal communication. The course will address lesson planning, implementation, and assessment issues related to using these tools in second language learning.
CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) offers a series of intensive summer institutes to provide timely professional development for foreign language and ESL educators throughout the country. The special topics offered under CI 5608 are designed to provide language teachers with the latest research-based information and best practices skill development as the field of language instruction evolves. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world.
CI 5621 - Culture as the Core in the Second Language Classroom
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
How language teachers foster development of intercultural communicative competence through a pedagogical approach that addresses the nature of culture and culture learning, and the interrelatedness of language and culture learning.
CI 5629 - Teaching Language through the Lens of Social Justice
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Teaching for and about social justice positively influences all students, yet social justice education can be challenging to integrate into the language classroom. In the first part of this institute, participants will examine the principles of social justice education and identify ways that these principles can support standards, objectives, and targeted skills in contemporary world language education. This discussion and reflection will help teachers to identify their own interests and strengths in becoming language educators for social justice. In the second part of the institute, the participants will build on this foundation to adapt, develop, and create learning opportunities for their foreign language students. A collaborative, creative set of experiences will help participants go from big ideas to activities and assessments for their classroom, all while teaching for and about social justice.
CI 5638 - Critical Approaches to Heritage Language Education
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Teaching heritage learners is not the same as teaching learners of a foreign language. Heritage languages are languages other than English that are spoken in homes, communities, and extended families. Although many of our students come from vibrant multilingual contexts, unless bilingual options are available, youth seldom have access to expanding their home/community languages (and literacy in them) in schools, which are predominantly English environments. When students are given the opportunity to use, learn, and expand on their heritage languages, they are able to tap into an abundance of resources and knowledge. Participants in this workshop will examine social justice topics, community-based learning for growing heritage language (literacy), and authentic assessments for heritage language development. Participants will collaborate; connect experiences of heritage teachers and learners to research on multilingual development; and learn how to bring communities, classrooms, and digital storytelling together to create powerful heritage language learning environments.
CI 5641 - Language, Culture, and Education
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Spring & Summer
Applies current sociolinguistic and discourse theory/research to study of relationships between language and culture in educational settings: language curriculum and instruction; classroom language use; borders between school and home/community language use; and educational policies on literacy/second-language instruction.
CI 5608 - CARLA Summer Institute Seminar
Credits: 1.0 -4.0 [max 16.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) offers a series of intensive summer institutes to provide timely professional development for foreign language and ESL educators throughout the country. The special topics offered under CI 5608 are designed to provide language teachers with the latest research-based information and best practices skill development as the field of language instruction evolves. Each institute is highly interactive and includes discussion, theory-building, hands-on activities, and plenty of networking opportunities with colleagues from around the world.
CI 5619 - Teaching World Languages and Cultures in Elementary Settings
Credits: 2.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Methods/materials for elementary world language instruction; development of oral communication/literacy in world languages; world language program design; global awareness/cross-cultural experience; children's language; children's literature, games, and songs; planning/development of units and lessons.
CI 5624 - Content-based Language Instruction and Curriculum Development
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
Intensive professional development to help foreign language teachers learn to implement the CBI curricular approach in the language classroom. Introduces all phases of CBI curricular development and provides resources necessary to ensure successful implementation.
CI 5625 - Assessing Language Learners? Communication Skills via Authentic Communicative Performance Tasks
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Summer
This institute opens with a discussion of the phrase ?performance towards proficiency? to highlight how classroom performance influences proficiency in real world contexts. Working together, participants will create a list of characteristics of classroom activities and tasks that build learners? proficiency in the target language and will use the list to identify the purpose, effectiveness, and practicality of a variety of model activities and tasks. With this background, participants will design receptive and productive communicative tasks for beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of proficiency. The institute will then focus on the evaluation of the learners? performance on these tasks. Using the performance descriptors identified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR), and the World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment (WIDA), participants will identify the domains (vocabulary, language control, text type, etc.) to evaluate learner performance on various tasks. With model rubric scales, they will evaluate examples of learner performances on various tasks, comparing their individual ratings to underline the importance of establishing inter-rater reliability. Participants will then create rubrics for the tasks they designed earlier in the institute. The role and choice of formative assessments used in daily lessons to monitor learner progress towards achievement of the communication goals of an instructional unit will also be considered. As a capstone to the week, participants will apply their learning about task design and evaluation in the development of a standards-based Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) to share with colleagues within this institute and also with a broader audience via the CARLA Assessment website.
CI 5627 - Creativity in the Second Language Classroom
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
This institute will examine the connection between multilingualism and creativity, and explore strategies to increase engagement in the classroom. This institute is designed for foreign language, ESL, and immersion teachers who want to promote creativity in their classroom while simultaneously improving learner’s target language proficiency.
CI 5656 - Teaching Literacy in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: OPT No Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall
Reading comprehension/composing processes in a second language; relationship between first and second literacy development; relationship between reading and writing; relationship of culture to reading comprehension and writing; politics of literacy; assessment of second language literacy; using technology to enhance literacy instruction.
CI 5657 - Teaching Speaking and Listening in Second Language Classrooms
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Even Year
Theories/methods in teaching language as communication in oral/aural modes; planning student interaction; classroom organization for oral language learning/acquisition; using technology to enhance interaction; assessment of listening comprehension and oral communication.
CI 5658 - Language Testing and Assessment
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Spring Odd Year
For language teachers. Aligning language classroom instruction/assessment; language testing/assessment; classroom-based and large-scale proficiency testing/assessment; assessing proficiency in speaking, listening, reading, writing and communicative modes (interpretive, presentational, interpersonal); creation of formative/summative assessments; critique of contemporary assessment instruments.
CI 5662 - Second Language Curriculum Design
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Spring
Historical overview of curriculum development in second language education; contexts that influence curriculum development; models for curriculum development in second language settings; politics of curricular reform; national/state standards and implications for curriculum development; effects of technology on second language curriculum.
CI 5667 - Using Target Language Texts to Support Students' Literacies Development
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Typically offered: Every Summer
Preparing students to participate in multilingual and multicultural communities entails shifting the way we approach language instruction. How do we move beyond teaching students to order coffee or talk about weekend activities, and instead encourage them to think critically and reflectively about language, culture, and communication? To answer this question, this institute focuses on how to develop students? foreign language literacies?or the ability to interpret and create different kinds of discourse?through engagement with target language texts such as movies, infographics, poetry, music videos, magazine articles, podcasts, and the like. Using conceptual and pedagogical understandings gained during the institute, participants will examine and assess target language texts for use in their classrooms and create text-based instructional materials that develop students? communicative abilities, critical thinking, intercultural competence, and language awareness.