Bachelor of Arts in English - TESOL

Students of SU English engage with important questions about the human condition, especially where issues of race, gender, ethnicity, identity, and class are concerned. Moreover, the faculty of English all champion values of diversity, empathy, and integrity as we educate our students with a view to their lifelong journey as people who understand the value of human expression. SU English emphasizes innovative thinking, which prepares students not only for the workplace of today, but the workplace of tomorrow, graduate school, and life-long-learning. Following Salisbury University’s mission and values, SU English strives to empower students with intellectual curiosity, critical and analytical thinking, exceptionally-crafted writing and rhetorical skills, and appreciation of linguistic diversity. TESOL Program outcomes-Local, National and International: We have the largest number of continuously funded, externally-sponsored, federal discretionary projects in the Fulton School at Salisbury University Projects in TESOL: National Professional Development include: 2011: (SAIL-STEM Seminars): of 236 proposals submitted nation-wide, we were the sole project to be funded for the state of Maryland 2007: (TARGET-Project): of 430 proposals submitted nation-wide, we were successfully funded. 2002: (ACE-Project): of 130 projects sponsored nationwide, only two were sponsored in Maryland, and we were one of them 2000: (TAT-Project) and (Bilingual Career Ladder Initiative) Our NPD projects are designed to offer cutting-edge professional development opportunities for area-teachers spanning a geographical radius of over 100 miles and spanning 8 independent school districts Our programs are designed to serve Maryland’s 55,000 and rising newcomer students In the past decade alone, over 200 area-professionals have improved the educational access of approximately 2,000 newcomer learners from approximately 140 linguistic backgrounds in Maryland’s Eastern Shore schools as a consequence of our programs Our Linguistics/TESOL graduates have taught English abroad in Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America respectively National linguist-experts serving on competitive, specially-convened panels For: non-profit, private, and governmental agencies such as: Native American and Alaskan Children in School Program, The Office of English Language Acquisition, The Early Childhood Education Program, The Pearson Education Services Consortium, Educational Testing Service; TESOL, and NCATE-CAEP accreditation bodies Professional service on International Editorial Boards to include: The Linguistics Journal, Asian EFL Journal, The Qualitative Report, and The International Journal of World English. Boast a research record in a range of subfields to include: TESOL curriculum and development, computer-assisted language learning (CALL), visual semiotics, critical multilingualism and film, pedagogical linguistics, second language teacher education, and critical discourse analysis respectively