TBED 5420 Multiculturalism and Acculturation

This course examines the social and psychological factors affecting students of diverse backgrounds in American schools. It is designed to sensitize teachers to their students’ personal adjustment to a new environment and how this reorientation affects their acculturation and motivation to learn. Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic processes will be explored as well as effective teaching strategies to respond to the emotional and academic needs of language-minority students of the larger immigrant group in the United States.
Credits: 3.0