Bilingual Education/Secondary Major, Bachelor of Arts in Education (BAE)
The Bilingual Education Program offers a major for those students preparing to teach dual language learners who wish to demonstrate their own commitment to learning an additional language. This Bilingual Education major requires the completion of a minor or certificate approved by an GNML advisor. Note: students who want to have a second endorsement in a minor field will require more than 12 quarters to complete the BAE.
This major satisfies the endorsement for preschool through grade 12.
Foreign Language Requirement
Acceptance to the program is contingent upon scoring Advanced-Low or higher on both the oral and written ACTFL tests. As the State of Washington Professional Educator Board (PESB) requires bilingual education candidates to pass the ACTFL oral and written tests with a score of Advanced-Mid or higher in order to get the certification, candidates who score Advanced-Low on any of the ACTFL tests will be asked to prepare a plan to pass the ACTFL oral and written tests at the end of the certification at the Advanced-Mid level. This plan will require then to take for instance some upper-division foreign language courses.
Grade Requirements: the minimum cumulative GPA for this program is ≥2.7.
Secondary Education students must complete the required Secondary Education Core and the following courses.
| Required English Course | ||
| ENGL 360 | LANGUAGE STRUCTURE AND USE | 5 |
| Required English as a Second Language Courses | ||
| ESLG 471 | TEACHING ENGLISH ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES | 3 |
| ESLG 480 | SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION | 4 |
| ESLG 481 | METHODS AND MATERIALS IN ENGLISH AS A SECOND OR FOREIGN LANGUAGE | 4 |
| ESLG 488 | SECOND LANGUAGE PRINT LITERACY THEORIES | 3 |
| ESLG 489 | CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM | 4 |
| ESLG 492 | SECOND LANGUAGE LITERACY PLACEMENT AND ASSESSMENT | 3 |
| Required General Modern Languages Courses | ||
| GNML 391 | PRINCIPLES OF BILINGUAL EDUCATION | 5 |
| GNML 392 | PRACTICES AND ASSESSMENT FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION | 5 |
| GNML 393 | PRACTICUM: BILINGUAL EDUCATION (variable credit course; must be repeated ) | 6 |
| Required Capstone | ||
| SPAN 491 | SPANISH SENIOR THESIS | 4 |
| or ESLG 490 | ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE CAPSTONE | |
| Total Credits | 46 | |