The Second Language Studies Department regularly offers one or more graduate-level courses in the following areas:
We offer a TESOL Practicum for our M.A. TESOL and Applied Linguistics students, which is also open to other SLS Department students.
Every year we also offer a two-semester research seminar designed primarily for Ph.D. students in their third year. The year-long seminar is designed to include significant preparation for students’ dissertation research.
Courses on other topics of current interest to students and faculty are also offered.
ELIP provides courses for IU students to improve their academic English language skills.
Find our full course list in the Student Portal.
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.
Examines both standard and non-standard varieties of English in countries where English is spoken as a first language, as an official language, and as an influential foreign language. Selected studies of sociolinguistic variables, language change, code-switching, and universal grammar will inform discussion of such variation as found in Afro-American English, Indian English, British dialects, and English-based Creoles.
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