The Department of Teacher Education offers a program of study leading to a Master's Degree in English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).   This endorsement program is directed toward currently certified (or certifiable) and/or experienced teachers who are pursuing an advanced degree and not currently ESOL endorsed. Upon completion of this degree program teachers will have satisfied the Florida state ESOL endorsement requirement.

• Admission Requirements:  To be admitted to the Master’s Degree in ESOL, the student must complete the graduate application
  and provide documentation that they:
• have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university;
• have a Professional (five year) Florida certificate or be certifiable in Florida;
• have GRE (Graduate Record Examination) scores on file at FAU; no more than five years old.
• have a 2.5, or better, on the last 60 semester hours of undergraduate work prior to the granting
  of the bachelor’s degree and a score of 1000, or better, on the general section of the
  Graduate Record Examination (quantitative and verbal combined–not analytical), 
  OR
   a 3.0, or better, on the last 60 semester hours of undergraduate work prior to the granting of
  the bachelor’s degree and a score of 900, or better, on the general section of the Graduate Record
  Examination (quantitative and verbal combined–not analytical);
• have been admitted by the Department of Teacher Education.

Program 
Students must successfully complete the following 36 credit (minimum) program of studies:

Required Core Courses (9  semester hours)

EDG 6253       Design Components of Curriculum                                                                   

EDG 6224       U.S. Curricular Trends & Issues                                                                                  

EDG 6285       Program Evaluation in Curriculum & Instruction                                                

Electives (3 semester hours in the College of Education)                                                  

EDG    6625    Global Perspectives of Curricular Trends   OR                                                              

EDF     6800    Foundations of Global Education    OR 

EDG    5331    Methods of Teaching Global Perspectives Across Curriculum                                                                           

Research/Statistics (6 semester hours)

STA     6113    Educational Statistics                                                                                                   

EDF     6481    Educational Research                                                                                       

ESOL Area of Specialization Required courses  (take the first three courses in order indicated)

TSL 5345        Methods of Teaching ESOL                                                                            

TSL 5145        Curriculum Development in ESOL                                                                   

TSL 5440        Language Assessment: Testing and Evaluation                                                  

EDG 5705       Multicultural Education                                                                                     

TSL 4251        Applied Linguistics and TESOL                                                                        

One elective     at 6000-level in related content area, i.e. Grammar; Reading history of English; Advance English Grammar; Survey or History of Immigrant; Linguistics & Reading; Second Language Acquisition; Seminar in Linguistics; etc.

INFORMATION  
For more information regarding the Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with ESOL Endorsement, please call the Department of Teacher Education 561/297-3584 (Boca), 954/236-1028 (Davie),  561/799-8135 (MacArthur), 561/785-9970 (St. Lucie).  or Email Dr. Hani Zainuddin zainuddi@fau.edu

Please keep and consult the University
catalog, of the semester that you were admitted to the program, for more details regarding your program.