Graduate Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)

This four-course sequence (12 semester hours) is valuable for anyone who wishes to gain more knowledge of secondforeign language learning. It is also useful as a springboard to further gradu­ate work in the field. It is designed to meet the needs of - K–12 language arts instructors who want more information but not necessarily state endorsement;writing instructors at two-year colleges; andstudents who would like to enter doctorate programs in applied linguistics, English as a sec­ond language, or second language acquisition.Students gain an understanding of issues of lan­guage acquisition and language pedagogy.

To be eligible for the graduate certificate in the teaching of English to speakers of other lan­guages, students need not have an undergraduate degree in English or linguistics but must have a B.A. or B.S. and meet requirements for admission to the College of Graduate Studies at YSU.For Graduate Admissions, please have the testing agency send official test scores directly to YSU if they are required for your program of interest (GRE, GMAT, MAT, TOEFL, IELTS, etc.). The institution code is 1975. Unofficial test scores cannot be used for admission purposes. TOEFL score—A minimum score of 550 on the paper-based test, 213 on the computer-based test, or 79-80 on the Internet-based (IBT) Test of English as a Foreign Language by graduates of foreign universities who are nonnative English speakers. (Scores over two years old by the beginning of the term applicants wish to enter are not acceptable.) Arrange with the Educational Testing Service to have your official TOEFL score sent to our office. Those students with below a 2.7 cumulative undergraduate GPA (Grade Point Average) will be asked to take the GRE or the MAT (Miller Analogies Test) per our Graduate School policy unless their program of interest has an alternative testing/GPA requirement. The College of Graduate Studies will accept the academic version of the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) as an alternative to the TOEFL exam for international students (A score of 6.5 on the IELTS test equates to a 550 on the paper-based TOEFL).