Week

Date

Course Topics

Readings and/or Exercises

Assignments

1

2/18

Course Introduction

2

2/25

Teaching Reading for Academic Purposes

• Nation, P. (2024)

3

3/4

Research on Reading Strategies & Tasks

• Uhrig, K. (2015)

4

3/11

Teaching Grammar

• Nation, P. (2024)

5

3/18

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

• Nation, P. (2024)

6

3/25

Course Design & Evaluating Reading Materials

• Nation, P. (2024)

7

4/1

The Internet and Social Media

• Mind Control and the Internet

Four Annotated Bibliographies Due

8

4/8

The Internet and Social Media

• Mind Control and the Internet

Research Prospectus Due

9

4/15

Midterm (Project)

10

4/22

The Internet and Social Media

• The positive Effects of Social Networking Sites

11

4/29

On the Edge

• Big Cats in Crisis

12

5/6

On the Edge

• A Cry for the Tiger

13

5/13

On the Edge

• Tigers in the Snow

Prepare for Microteaching

14

5/20

Microteaching

Groups of two

Groups 1-4

15

5/27

Microteaching

Groups 5-8

16

6/3

Microteaching

Groups 9-12

17

6/10

Work on final project

18

6/17

Individual teacher-student conferences +

Work on final project

Final paper due 6/17 Midnight on Moodle