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Degrees Offered: BA and MA endorsement in TESL.
Length of Program: Usually 3 semesters. Students may be full-time or part-time and may begin the program at the beginning of the fall, spring or summer semester.
Program Requirements: 12 semester hours plus 6 of college-level foreign language. Competence in a language other than English is not required. 30 field hours of tutoring, interaction culturally and linguistically for the Methods and Materials classis required; at least 15 hours for the ESL Theory class are required. Neither a thesis nor a comprehensive examination is required. Also required are: reader response to texts used for Methods and Materials and for ESL Theory classes; three written and orally-delivered reports on individual finds in library or Internet sources; for both undergraduates and graduates a textbook evaluation and a second longer paper that perhaps reports on a KYTESOL/SETESOL Conference attendance; graduates do a third paper on a high-interest topic using both primary and secondary sources.
Courses Offered: Theory of English Second Language; Methods and Materials of ESL; Introduction to Linguistic Theory; History of the English Language; 6 hours of a college-level foreign language for empathy not fluency. These courses are offered at both the 500 and 700 level.
Full-Time Staff: E. Joy Allameh, James Kenkel, Sarah Tsiang, Jack Culross (interim chair).
Admission Requirements: Nonnative English speakers must have a TOEFL score of 550.
Tuition, Fees, and Aid: For in-state students, US$28.41for undergraduates per semester hour; US$30.70 for graduates per semester hour; for out-of-state students, US$76.91 for undergraduates per semester hour; US$84.19 for graduates per semester hour; for targeted undergraduates, US$44.42 per semester hour and targeted graduates US$48.01 per semester hour. Fees are insurance and departmental. Teaching assistantships Merit scholarships Work study opportunities
General: Students getting the ESL Endorsement enjoy opportunities to interact with and tutor the EKU English Language Instruction Program students (EELI, an Intensive English Program) and will keep a log of their meetings with perhaps as many as three differing nationalities during each semester. Perhaps they will choose to work with the EELI Tutoring Lab being paid $8 an hour but may not use those hours for the log. Often, students interact with international families visiting from Sister Universities in Japan, Korea, and China. The annual international banquet in November and cultural mixers offer additional occasions for interaction with multiple nationalities/languages. Students who study Japanese may opt for an exchange year studying in Japan at the University of Yamanashi; Japanese students from UY come to EELI for a month each August (the 16th group is scheduled for an '07 visit). Exchange students from Korea (from Daegu Haany University) come for a month to study American culture and English each June and also come for an exchange year; the sixth group will arrive June 27, 2007. These students offer endorsement students additional opportunities for field work. Faculty and Administrators from both UY and DHU come with their families to study at EELI and appreciate the help they and their children get from ESL endorsement students. This program leads to a state credential in TESOL.
None of this program is available via distance learning.
The university has an intensive English language program for nonnative speakers.
Further Information:
Dr. Joy Allameh, Director of EELI and Associate Professor of English
English Department, Case Annex 467
Eastern Kentucky University
Kit Carson Drive
Richmond, KY 40475 USA
Telephone: 859-622-2099
Fax: 859-622-2976
E-mail: Joy.Allameh@eku.edu
http://www.eku.edu/
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