A review of selected current topics in second language and education research. Opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge of research approaches and content in areas such as second language acquisition, foreign language development, bilingual literacy, cross-cultural pragmatics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics. Students will pursue individual areas of interest by completing a project under faculty guidance. (11/16/1999). To be taken near the end of the student's program of study. The culminating and integrative experience of the master's degree programs in foreign languages and bilingual education: each student presents his or her findings on the problem or problems he or she has pursued and studies their implications relative to local, regional, and national professional issues.
