Teaching English Language Learners: ESL Minor Requirements

License: This minor is designed to prepare students for licensing to teach English language learners and is attached to a licensing program such as Early Childhood: Special and Regular Education or Middle-Childhood Through Adolescence: Regular Education. For other combinations, consult a School of Education advisor.

1. Twenty-four credits, as follows:
   • ED 260 Study of Language and Linguistics
   • ED 261 Second Language Acquisition
   • ED 262 Principles of Bilingual/Bicultural Education
   • ED 432 Content Based Literacy Development
   • ED 450 ESL Methods
   • ED 451 ESL/Bilingual Assessment
   • ED 472 ESL Practicum

   Three additional credits in approved electives to support the minor.
    

2. English Language Proficiency: "C" or better grades in ENG 110 and COMMS 101, or approved equivalency.
    
3. Target Language Proficiency: "C" or better grades in one year of a language at the college level or two years of a language in high school, or approved equivalency.
4. Licensing Transition Steps
   • PRAXIS I: Reading Passing Score: 175; Writing Passing Score: 174; Mathematics Passing Score: 173
   • PRAXIS II: Test Code: 0640; Wisconsin Passing Score: 600
   • Preliminary Entry
   • Aspiring Professional
   • Emergent Professional
   • Licensure Endorsement
   • Exit GPA