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Graduate Certificate
Second Language Studies - Graduate Certificate
Program:
Second Language Studies - Graduate Certificate
Plan Code:
SECLA_GRC2
Program Level:
Graduate Certification
Award Type:
Graduate Certificate Program
College:
College of Arts and Letters
Department:
Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
Excerpt from the official Academic Programs Catalog:
Listed below are the approved requirements for the program from the official Academic Programs Catalog.
Students must consult their advisors to learn which specific requirements apply to their degree programs.
College of Arts and Letters
Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures
Graduate Study
Second Language Studies - Graduate Certificate
View this text within the context of the catalog.
The Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies, administered by the Department of Linguistics, Languages and Cultures, is designed to provide working professionals in applied linguistics or a related field or current graduate students at Michigan State University with materials and methodologies for researching their own practices, their program’s practices, or external language-teaching programs’ practices in second, additional, or multilingual language-teaching methods. The foci of the program is on applied linguistics and second language acquisition, exploration of the cognitive and social mechanisms underpinning second, additional, and multilingual language development, and how identities and ideologies, and educational language policies, practices, and assessment, affect teaching and learning. The program aids in the understanding of second language acquisition theory and places emphasis on including marginalized and underrepresented language learners and teachers in research on second, additional, and multilingual language learning and teaching.
Admission
Applicants must complete the Intent to Enroll form on the Second Language Studies Program’s Web site at https://sls.msu.edu/admissions/.
Requirements for the Graduate Certificate in Second Language Studies
Students must complete 9 credits from the courses below with a minimum grade of 3.0 minimum in each course for it to count toward the certificate.
1.
The following course (3 credits):
LLT
860
Second Language Acquisition
3
2.
Complete two additional courses selected from the following courses (6 credits):
LLT
807
Language Teaching Methods
3
LLT
808
Assessment for Language Teaching and Research
3
LLT
809
Teaching Second Language Reading and Writing
3
LLT
821
Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition
3
LLT
822
Interlanguage Analysis
3
LLT
823
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics in Second Language Studies
3
LLT
841
Topics in Second/Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
3
LLT
842
Teaching and Learning Vocabulary in Another Language
3
LLT
856
Language Identity and Ideology in Multilingual Settings
3
LLT
861
Advanced Topics in Second Language Acquisition
3
LLT
862
Advanced Research in Second Language Acquisition
3
LLT
864
Second Language Psycholinguistics
3
LLT
870
Instructed Second Language Acquisition
3
LLT
872
Research Methods for Language Teaching and Foreign/Second Language Learning
3
LLT
873
Quantitative Research in Second Language Studies
3
LLT
874
Qualitative Research in Second Language Studies
3
3.
Demonstrate working knowledge on second language studies research methods and skills by turning in a paper from any of the courses taken toward the certificate to the Second Language Program Director during the final-exam week of the last semester in the certificate program. The Director will provide feedback to the student on the paper by the time course grades are due that semester, with the expectation that the student will use the feedback to revise and then send the paper to an appropriate venue for potential publication.
4.
Complete an exit survey during the final-exam week of the last semester in the certificate program.
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