In this course, students will learn how language, language use, skills, and assessment in real-world contexts are related to English language education and language learners. Language can be described in terms of its vocabulary, grammar, and texts at discourse and pragmatic levels and analyzed using technology (e.g., corpus linguistics). Language skills (listening, speaking, pronunciation, reading, and writing) and how they are assessed will be explored in light of the current applied linguistics literature. The processes of how learners with varying learning styles, strategies, and degrees of motivation acquire and are socialized into language(s), especially English, will also be discussed. To achieve learning outcomes of this course, students will (A) practice sharing their thoughts or reflections on classroom readings; (B) write an essay on their history of language learning, teaching, and use; (C) review the literature on a topic relevant to applied linguistics; and (D) write an evaluation of an English language teaching program in a real-world context in view of the literature.

Skill Level: Beginner

This course equips students with necessary content, knowledge, skills, attitudes, and pedagogical approaches to teaching English as a foreign language at the tertiary level based on current theories and practices. The first four weeks of the course provide a profound knowledge base for English Language teaching and Education, attitudes as a language teacher, and pedagogical approaches to teaching English as a foreign language. The next six weeks of the course equip students with the content matters of teaching and assessing receptive (Reading and Listening) and productive (Speaking and Writing) competences in EFL classrooms. The last six weeks are for students to design EFL Reading, Listening, Speaking, and Writing digital materials and assessments and present the materials and assessments in mini-teaching. After the mini teaching, they need to evaluate and reflect on their teaching through a reflective journal. Such a reflective evaluation helps students make sense of their teaching, teaching materials, and assessment.   The teaching and learning processes are conducted through workshops, discussions, presentations, mini teaching, and reflection.


Skill Level: Beginner