Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language Minor
Total Semester Hours Required for the TESL/TEFL Minor: 18 semester hours
The interdisciplinary Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language minor provides background and experience in second-language acquisition. This pre-professional minor is appropriate for pre-service teachers who want to gain additional understanding of how to effectively teach the emergent bi-lingual population of students in K-12 schools in the United States; students who plan to work with adult emergent bilinguals in the United States; and students who plan to teach English abroad. This minor is open to students in any major. Foreign language study or experience is encouraged but not required. The minor does not lead to an endorsement; however, it does provide a foundation from which graduates can go on to complete an endorsement at the master's level or complete TESOL certification.
Required Core Courses (12 hours)
CDS 2200
Language Acquisition. (3 credits)
ENG 2901
Structure of English. (3 credits)
ENG 3902
Second Language Acquisition and the Teaching of. (3 credits)
One methods course chosen from:
ELE 4890
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students/English Language Learners: Instructional Methods. (3 credits)
OR
1
WLE 3400
Methods of Teaching Foreign Language. (3 credits)
2
Required Electives (6 hours)
AFR 2200
Pan Africanism. (3 credits)
ANT 2200
Introduction to Anthropology. (3 credits)
CDS 2100
Phonetics and Phonological Development. (3 credits)
CMN 3710
Communicating Across Differences. (3 credits)
EDF 2555
Education in a Diverse Society: The Multilingual/Multicultural Classroom. (3 credits)
ELE 3280
Developmental Reading in the Elementary and Middle School. (3 credits)
3
ELE 3281
Developmental Reading in Early Childhood. (3 credits)
4
ELE 4890
Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students/English Language Learners: Instructional Methods. (3 credits)
ENG 2706
Latin American and Latinx Literatures. (3 credits)
ENG 2850
Postcolonial Literatures in English. (3 credits)
ENG 3705
American Multicultural Literatures. (3 credits)
ENG 3901
Language and Linguistics. (3 credits)
ENG 3907
Asian Literatures. (3 credits)
ENG 4850
Studies in Postcolonial and World Literatures. (3 credits)
ENG 4901
History of the English Language. (3 credits)
GEO 1100
Cultural Geography. (3 credits)
GEO 1200
World Regional Geography. (3 credits)
GEO 3055
Geography and Culture of Asia. (3 credits)
GEO 3060
Geography and Culture of Europe. (3 credits)
HIS 2050
US History: Building Latino/a/e Communities. (3 credits)
HIS 3260
Modern Latin America. (3 credits)
WLE 3400
Methods of Teaching Foreign Language. (3 credits)
*
WLF 2201
Intermediate French I. (4 credits)
WLF 2202
Intermediate French II. (4 credits)
WLG 2201
Intermediate German I. (4 credits)
WLG 2202
Intermediate German II. (4 credits)
WLS 2201
Intermediate Spanish I. (4 credits)
WLS 2202
Intermediate Spanish II. (4 credits)
WLS 3501
Spanish for Young Learners I. (1 to 3 credits)
OR
WLF 3501
French for Young Learners. (1 to 3 credits)
OR
WLG 3501
German for Young Learners. (1 to 3 credits)
Any World Language course at the 3000-level or above (3-4 credits)
*May be taken as an elective for the minor if not taken as part of the core courses above.
Footnotes:
1听All prerequisites apply.
2听Prerequisites may be waived for students in the minor not seeking teacher certification.
3听All prerequisites apply.
4听All prerequisites apply.
Information sourced from the 2026-2027 EIU Undergraduate Catalog.
