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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

English as a Second Language Endorsement


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Degree offered at: Campbellsville, Louisville

Campbellsville University’s ESL endorsement online program provides you with the necessary skills and knowledge of how to better reach ESL students. The certification focuses on success strategies such as immersion and sheltered English. There are 15 credit hours of study, plus a 30-hour field experience component that is built into the curriculum. You can complete the endorsement as part of the Teacher Leader Master of Arts in Education degree, Master of Arts in School Improvement program, or as an advanced level certification independently.

The ESL endorsement online program will explore how language is learned and how to better teach the English language. It will also provide you with an understanding of diversity in foundational belief systems and world views. You will get an introduction to the teaching of the ESL skill set, which includes reading, writing, oral skills and vocabulary. In addition, you’ll study the principles and practices of second-language classrooms, standardized testing and the assessment of proficiency levels for initial placement. You will also discover the tools and methods for effectively teaching English as a second language using both commercial and teacher-made materials and gain hands-on experience in developing materials for teaching reading, writing and grammar.

Basic Endorsement Only Documents Required: (Additional documents may be necessary when the ESL Endorsement is chosen as a specialty within the Teacher Leader or School Improvement programs)

Program Admissions


Cap 5 Admission


Copy of valid Teacher’s Certificate

Official Transcript(s)  

Cumulative GPA 2.75 or 3.0 on last 30 hours 

Disposition Recommendation (self)

KY Code of Ethics

Character & Fitness

Diversity Survey

Curriculum Contract/Guide Sheet

Cap 6 Continuation


GPA (minimum 3.0)

Credit Hours Completed  (9 earned hours for ESL Endorsement only)

Disposition Recommendation  (Faculty)

Cap 7 Completion/Exit


Transcript Review; GPA (minimum 3.0)

Two Disposition Recommendations  (self and faculty)

Content Literacy Lesson Plan

CA-1 Form Completed and Attached

Application for Additional Credentials

Clinical Hours (30)

Praxis II (code 5362) (155 passing score)

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