This course will provide perspective on how our cultural and linguistic experiences affect our development and readiness for school-based learning. By using examples of typical developmental learning experiences, the course highlights how exposure to and experience with more than one language or culture leads to differences in instructional needs and acquired skills and knowledge. Various examples are used to reinforce how differences affect instruction and assessment needs.

This course is part of the assessment series designed to support students who are learning English language; however, this is a stand-alone course and may be taken at any time.