Certificate in TESOL and Second Language Acquisition

Students on Summer 2018, Fall 2018, or Spring 2019 requirements TESLNAACRT

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 24 credit hours*, including the requirements listed below.

Core Courses.
1. Introduction to Second Language Acquisition. One (1) course:
  - SLST-S 301 Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
  SLST-S 301 Introduction to Second Language Acquisition
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Introduces students to contemporary approaches to second language acquisition. Topics include models of second language acquisition, learner variables, the human capacity for language and its availability throughout the lifespan, developmental stages, and effects of instruction. Students will examine samples of learner language and analyze them on their own terms.
  Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
2. Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction. One (1) course:
  - SLST-S 305 Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction
  SLST-S 305 Second Language Acquisition and Language Instruction
  Credits
  3
  Prerequisites
  None
  Description
  Examines impact of advances in psychology and sociology on the definition of best practices in adult second and foreign language instruction.
  Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST Electives. Three (3) courses:
- SLST-S 111 Multilingualism and Society
- SLST-S 112 Multilingualism and the Brain
- SLST-S 150 Voices of America and Voices of the World
- SLST-S 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
- SLST-S 205 Language and Identity in Multilingual Contexts
- SLST-S 213 Multilingual Brain and Behavior Research Experience
- SLST-S 302 The Successful Language Learner
- SLST-S 304 Language Revitalization
- SLST-S 306 Acquiring New Language Systems
- SLST-S 308 English Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
- SLST-S 312 New Sounds: Foreign Accents and Pronunciation in a Second Language
- SLST-S 319 Special Topics in Second Language Studies
- SLST-S 331 Heritage Language Acquisition
SLST-S 111 Multilingualism and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study of the many contexts in which individuals and communities regularly use two or more languages in the United States and around the world, with particular focus on different kinds of multilingualism, language change in multilingual contexts, and how multilingualism affects language use and identity.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 112 Multilingualism and the Brain
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the problem of fitting several languages into one mind and how the brain adapts to managing several languages. Examines a range of general cognitive issues linked to multilingualism, such as the need to suppress one language in the performance of another, and their effects on the speaker.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 150 Voices of America and Voices of the World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Studies the role of social factors in accent perception. Native and nonnative accents feed into social pecking orders, which cause listeners to evaluate speakers in various ways. This course addresses the nature of human accents in their cognitive and psychological dimensions: how social factors impact the learning of pronunciation, how accent affects social acceptance, and how interlocutors' reactions can be improved.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the roles that perceptions of linguistic differences among groups and individuals play in intolerant behavior on the part of some segments of American society, and the corresponding roles that genuine understanding of these differences can play in promoting tolerance and guiding responses to intolerance.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 204 or SLST-S 204
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 205 Language and Identity in Multilingual Contexts
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores how individuals use language to (co)construct their own and other's identities in multilingual contexts and how various facets of identity affect opportunities for language learning and language use. Readings will focus on a wide range of social contexts, languages, and individuals from diverse gender, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 213 Multilingual Brain and Behavior Research Experience
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Provides an introduction to the scientific method for the study of language and training in language data analysis techniques. Introduces knowledge and skills transferable to careers in the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences through work with data management tools and software used in quantitative linguistic research.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 302 The Successful Language Learner
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces students to the best practices for adult second language learners and to research on learner and learning variables underlying these practices.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 304 Language Revitalization
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Half of the 6,000 languages spoken today are endangered. This course explores why languages are at risk and investigates how minority and indigenous languages can be revitalized. Case studies highlight practical solutions currently being used in diverse communities. Students choose a particular endangered language as their focus of study.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 306 Acquiring New Language Systems
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the learning challenges associated with the acquisition of new languages in the domains of sound systems, word formation, sentence structure, and sentence interpretation.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 308 English Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces students to a formal approach to major structures of English morphosyntax within generative grammar, stressing hypothesis formation and testing. Review of empirical research on the cognitive effects of implicit and explicit grammar instruction.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 312 New Sounds: Foreign Accents and Pronunciation in a Second Language
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Presents phonetic manifestations of foreign accent to describe what factors in a learner language might impact accent and intelligibility when speaking English. Introduces methods for teaching pronunciation to second language learners, and how to measure progress and develop strategies for specific pronunciation difficulties.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 319 Special Topics in Second Language Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Topics dealing with cognitive, social, or educational dimensions of second language acquisition or multilingualism.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
SLST-S 331 Heritage Language Acquisition
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the nature of bilingual acquisition in childhood, specifically in contexts of minority language populations in the United States. Heritage languages can include immigrant languages, indigenous languages, and colonial languages. Topics covered will include first and second language acquisition, language maintenance, language socialization, and language policy.
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
Additional Electives. Two (2) courses:
- SLST-S 111 Multilingualism and Society
- SLST-S 112 Multilingualism and the Brain
- SLST-S 150 Voices of America and Voices of the World
- SLST-S 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
- SLST-S 205 Language and Identity in Multilingual Contexts
- SLST-S 213 Multilingual Brain and Behavior Research Experience
- SLST-S 302 The Successful Language Learner
- SLST-S 304 Language Revitalization
- SLST-S 306 Acquiring New Language Systems
- SLST-S 308 English Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
- SLST-S 312 New Sounds: Foreign Accents and Pronunciation in a Second Language
- SLST-S 319 Special Topics in Second Language Studies
- SLST-S 331 Heritage Language Acquisition
- COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies (Approved topics: "LANGUAGE HOTSPOTS AND BIODIVERSITY" (TPC 29))
- EDUC-L 239 Language and Learning
- EDUC-L 441 Bilingual Education: Introduction
- EDUC-M 445
- FRIT-F 315 The Sounds and Rhythms of French
- FRIT-F 401 Structure and Development of French
- FRIT-F 402 Introduction to French Linguistics
- GER-E 336 Introduction to the Structure of Germanic Languages
- GER-G 448 Introduction to German Phonetics and Phonology
- GER-G 451 Introduction to German Syntax
- HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
- HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
- HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
- LING-L 203
- LING-L 315 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
- LING-L 325 Semantics
- SLHS-S 201 Speech Anatomy and Physiology
- SLHS-S 333 Childhood Language
SLST-S 111 Multilingualism and Society
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Study of the many contexts in which individuals and communities regularly use two or more languages in the United States and around the world, with particular focus on different kinds of multilingualism, language change in multilingual contexts, and how multilingualism affects language use and identity.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 112 Multilingualism and the Brain
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the problem of fitting several languages into one mind and how the brain adapts to managing several languages. Examines a range of general cognitive issues linked to multilingualism, such as the need to suppress one language in the performance of another, and their effects on the speaker.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 150 Voices of America and Voices of the World
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Studies the role of social factors in accent perception. Native and nonnative accents feed into social pecking orders, which cause listeners to evaluate speakers in various ways. This course addresses the nature of human accents in their cognitive and psychological dimensions: how social factors impact the learning of pronunciation, how accent affects social acceptance, and how interlocutors' reactions can be improved.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 204 Language and (In)Tolerance in the US
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores the roles that perceptions of linguistic differences among groups and individuals play in intolerant behavior on the part of some segments of American society, and the corresponding roles that genuine understanding of these differences can play in promoting tolerance and guiding responses to intolerance.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of ANTH-L 204 or SLST-S 204
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 205 Language and Identity in Multilingual Contexts
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Explores how individuals use language to (co)construct their own and other's identities in multilingual contexts and how various facets of identity affect opportunities for language learning and language use. Readings will focus on a wide range of social contexts, languages, and individuals from diverse gender, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 213 Multilingual Brain and Behavior Research Experience
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Provides an introduction to the scientific method for the study of language and training in language data analysis techniques. Introduces knowledge and skills transferable to careers in the social, cognitive, and behavioral sciences through work with data management tools and software used in quantitative linguistic research.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 302 The Successful Language Learner
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces students to the best practices for adult second language learners and to research on learner and learning variables underlying these practices.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 304 Language Revitalization
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Half of the 6,000 languages spoken today are endangered. This course explores why languages are at risk and investigates how minority and indigenous languages can be revitalized. Case studies highlight practical solutions currently being used in diverse communities. Students choose a particular endangered language as their focus of study.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
SLST-S 306 Acquiring New Language Systems
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the learning challenges associated with the acquisition of new languages in the domains of sound systems, word formation, sentence structure, and sentence interpretation.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 308 English Grammar and Second Language Acquisition
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduces students to a formal approach to major structures of English morphosyntax within generative grammar, stressing hypothesis formation and testing. Review of empirical research on the cognitive effects of implicit and explicit grammar instruction.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 312 New Sounds: Foreign Accents and Pronunciation in a Second Language
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Presents phonetic manifestations of foreign accent to describe what factors in a learner language might impact accent and intelligibility when speaking English. Introduces methods for teaching pronunciation to second language learners, and how to measure progress and develop strategies for specific pronunciation difficulties.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLST-S 319 Special Topics in Second Language Studies

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Topics dealing with cognitive, social, or educational dimensions of second language acquisition or multilingualism.
Repeatability
May be repeated with different topics for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
SLST-S 331 Heritage Language Acquisition
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the nature of bilingual acquisition in childhood, specifically in contexts of minority language populations in the United States. Heritage languages can include immigrant languages, indigenous languages, and colonial languages. Topics covered will include first and second language acquisition, language maintenance, language socialization, and language policy.
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE DUScourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE DUScourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
COLL-C 104 Critical Approaches to the Social and Historical Studies
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Specific topics will vary by section and over time, but all versions of COLL-C 104 will meet the objectives of the College of Arts and Sciences Critical Approaches curriculum. The curriculum is intended for freshmen and sophomores, who will learn how scholars from the social and historical studies Breadth of Inquiry area frame questions, propose answers, and assess the validity of competing approaches. Writing and related skills are stressed.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of COLL-C 104 or COLL-S 104.
- Summer 2025CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE CAPPcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE CAPPcourse
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
EDUC-L 239 Language and Learning

Description
Examines the role of language in creating, maintaining, and changing educational practices. Topics include bilingualism, dialects, heritage languages, language-in-education policy, language revitalization, and first and second language learning. Other topics include basic linguistic principles that are useful for pedagogy in both formal and informal contexts.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

EDUC-L 441 Bilingual Education: Introduction

Description
Introduction to the development of bilingual/bicultural education in the U.S. - its antecedents, the rationale, theories, and comparison of existing bilingual/bicultural programs.
Additional information
Credit hour, prerequisite, and other information cannot be displayed for this course. If this is a course outside of the College of Arts and Sciences, please see the appropriate school's bulletin for additional information.

FRIT-F 315 The Sounds and Rhythms of French

Credits
4
Prerequisites
FRIT-F 250 or FRIT-F 265; or appropriate placement test score
Description
In-depth study of the French sound system and refinement of pronunciation through practical exercises.
FRIT-F 401 Structure and Development of French
Credits
3
Prerequisites
FRIT-F 313, FRIT-F 314, or consent of instructor
Description
Introductory description of the structure of present-day French, including problems of social and geographical variation. Discussion of the highlights of the development of the French language from its formative period to the present.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
FRIT-F 402 Introduction to French Linguistics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
FRIT-F 313, FRIT-F 314, or consent of instructor
Description
Introduction to the structure of the French language: phonology, morphology, and syntax.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
GER-E 336 Introduction to the Structure of Germanic Languages
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Introduction to the comparative linguistic structure of the modern Germanic languages. Does not require specific background in general linguistics or knowledge of a particular language other than English.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
GER-G 448 Introduction to German Phonetics and Phonology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
GER-G 330; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Phonetics of modern German, including practice in transcription, contrastive analysis of English and German, and attention to pronunciation. Brief historical sketch of principal phonological developments. Conducted in German.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
GER-G 451 Introduction to German Syntax
Credits
3
Prerequisites
GER-G 330; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
The syntax of modern German, with a practical introduction to the methods of grammatical analysis. Conducted in German.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 280 or HISP-S 310; or appropriate placement exam score
Description
Introduces the basic concepts of Hispanic linguistics and establishes the background for the future application of linguistic principles. The course surveys linguistic properties in Spanish, including phonology, morphology, and syntax. Additional introductory material on historical linguistics, second language acquisition, semantics, and sociolinguistics will be included.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in Hispanic sociolinguistics/pragmatics. Topics include sociolinguistics, phonological and syntactic variation, field methods, discourse analysis, language and power, language ideology, language attitudes, language in context, language and gender, language and the law, bilingualism, linguistic politeness and speech act theory.
Repeatability
May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
Credits
3
Prerequisites
HISP-S 326
Description
Examines current topics in the acquisition of Spanish. Provides an introduction to research on the first and/or second language acquisition of Spanish and to the pedagogical applications of these findings. Students develop a background in these fields and have opportunities to link theory and practice.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
LING-L 315 Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Examines the relationship between language and society. Issues include the nature of sociolinguistics; the importance of age, sex, socioeconomic status, language ideologies; why people use different dialects/languages in different situations; bilingualism and multilingualism; language choice, language attitudes, language endangerment; the relevance of sociolinguistics to general linguistics theory.
- Summer 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE SHcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE SHcourse
LING-L 325 Semantics
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Notes
R: LING-L 203
Description
An introduction to the relationship between linguistic forms and their meanings, use, and interpretation. Students will investigate the domain of linguistic semantics and acquire the "tools" to do semantic analysis and to critically evaluate those of others.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLHS-S 201 Speech Anatomy and Physiology
Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Description
Covers anatomy and physiology of the speech mechanism; contemporary views of speech physiology; subsystems of the speech mechanism - respiratory, laryngeal, and supraglottal - integrated with a model of speech production. Includes laboratory experiences.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLHS-S 201 and SPHS-S 201.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
SLHS-S 333 Childhood Language
Credits
3
Prerequisites
At least sophomore standing
Description
Develops knowledge of how language is acquired by young children, examines data on what young infants and young children know about language at different ages, and considers the kinds of theories that may explain this data.
Repeatability
Credit given for only one of SLHS-S 333 or SPHS-S 333.
- Summer 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Spring 2025CASE NMcourse
  
  Fall 2024CASE NMcourse
Practicum. One (1) course:
- SLST-S 435 Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Practicum
SLST-S 435 Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Practicum

Credits
3
Prerequisites
None
Notes
P or C: SLST-S 305
Description
Provides ten hours of supervised teaching English as a second language to adult learners, including practice with developing a needs assessment, placement testing, syllabus and lesson design, and materials development. Students will also create a teaching portfolio. Lectures focus on principles and best practices related to language teaching.
Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
1. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
2. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
5. Exceptions to certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.

Notes

*A grade of C or higher must be earned in each course.