Program Description

The program in Foreign Language Education (Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Russian, Spanish) with New York State Certification is designed to prepare teachers of Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Latin, and Russian, Spanish language learners at the secondary level. Including a substantial field-based component, our program is based on communicative methods of foreign language learning and a reflective model of teaching, which incorporates collaboration with colleagues, students, and community. Our goal is to prepare pre-service and in-service teachers with a firm foundation in language, literacy, and applied linguistics along with an understanding of a range of second language teaching approaches that can be adjusted to suit the needs of different learner populations from diverse educational and ethnic backgrounds. The NYU Foreign Language Education program affirms the value of heritage languages and cultures and takes an additive view of second language acquisition.

Admission Requirement

All students who are admitted to the Masters in Foreign Language Education program will have completed a bachelor's degree in the target foreign language or a bachelor's degree in one of the liberal arts and science areas with a concentration in the target foreign language, or an equivalent of 36 credits in the target foreign language.

Students are also required to take 3 to 6 credits of advanced course work in the target language in the graduate program. Courses offered by the program are listed below. Courses in Italian, German, Latin, Hebrew, and Russian are offered in NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Science.

I. Content Core (3 - 9 credits)

E29.2003 Linguistic analysis (required) (3)
E29.2128 Advanced Spanish for teachers of Spanish (3)
E29.2419 Applied linguistics in Spanish (3)
E29.2129 Advanced French for teachers of French (3)
E29.2027 Applied linguistics in French (3)
E29.2124 Advanced Chinese for teachers of Chinese I (3)
E29.2125 Advanced Chinese for teachers of Chinese II (3)
E29.2417 Applied linguistics in Chinese (3)
E29.2127 Advanced Japanese for teachers of Japanese (3)
E29.2421 Applied linguistics in Japanese (3)
German, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, and Russian courses are offered in Graduate School of Arts and Science (3-6)

II. General Pedagogical Core (10 credits)

E27.2010 Inquiries into teaching and learning III (4)
E63.2272 Adolescent development (3)
E75.2162 Educating students w/ disabilities in middle childhood and adolescent settings (3)

III. Pedagogical Content Knowledge Core (9 - 15 credits)

E29.2001 Multicultural/bilingual education: Theory and practice (3)
OR (required)
E29.2005 Intercultural perspectives in multilingual multicultural education (3)
E29.2206 Second language acquisition and research (required) (3)
E29.2060 Second language evaluation and assessment (3)
E29.2204 Teaching second language across content areas (3)
E29.2418 Field experience and seminar in foreign language teaching (3)
E29.2914 Workshop in teaching foreign languages (study abroad option) (3-6)
E29.2040 Teaching second language in a technological society (3)
E29.2203 Linguistics, literacy, and bilingualism (3)
E27.2275 Language and Literacy Acquisition and Development (3)

IV. Specialization Pedagogical Core (7 credits)

E29.2069 Teaching foreign languages: Theory and practice (3)
OR
E29.2002 Teaching second languages: Theory and practice (3)
E29.2201 Second language classroom: Elementary and secondary schools (4)

V. Student Teaching (6 credits)

E29.2065. Student teaching in foreign languages: 7 - 9 (3)
E29.2066  Student teaching in foreign languages: 10 - 12 (3)

VI. Social Responsibilities of Teachers (0 credit)

E27.2999 Drug and Alcohol Education/Child Abuse Identification/School Violence: Social Responsibilities of Teachers(0)

VII. Terminal Experience (3 credits)

E29.2039 Individual Advanced Project in MMS (study abroad option) (3)
Or
E29.2099 Culminating experience seminar in MMS (3)

VIII. Extension to Grades 1 - 6 Teacher Certificate in FL (Additional 3 credits)

E29.2018 Teaching foreign languages to elementary school children (3)

Sample Program of Study