SemesterFall Semester, 2025
DepartmentM.A. Program in TESOL for In-Service Teachers, First Year M.A. Program in TESOL for In-Service Teachers, Second Year M.A. Program in TESOL for In-Service Teachers, Third Year M.A. Program in TESOL for In-Service Teachers, Fourth Year
Course NameStudies on English Teaching Methods & Material Evaluation
InstructorCHAO CHIN-CHI
Credit3.0
Course TypeRequired
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

 This is just an overview. Topics may not be on the final version of the syllabus. 

Please wait for the first day of the class to get the real syllabus



Week 1. Chapter 1: Introduction 



Week 2. Chapter 2: GTM



Week 3: Chapter 3 Direct method (Transfer, interference, and overgeneration, inductive and deductive reasoning.



Week 4: Chapter 4  ALM 



Week 5: Chapter 5 Silent way. Rote learning versus meaningful learning 



Week 6: Chapter 6 Desuggestopedia and cooperative learning



Week 7: CLL and Roger's humanistic psychology



Week 8: Chapter 8 TPR, Left and right brain



Week 9: Chapter 10: Mid-term exam



Week 10: The Natural approach/ Top-down and bottom-up processing



Week 11: Chapter 9 CLT, Discourse, meaning negotiation



Week 12 and 13: CBI and CALL



Week 14: TBLT



Week 15: Critical thinking



Week 16: Strategies, MI, Styles, and strategies



Week 17: Conclusion



Week 18: Final exam


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant

Keven is our assistant for this course. 


Requirement/Grading

Participation 20%



Mid-term exam: 20%



Projects  30%



Final exam or report: 30%


Textbook & Reference

(To be confirmed when the semester starts.)



Foundation: Marianne Celce-Murcia, Donna M. Brinton, and Marguerite Ann Snow (Eds.)(2014) Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language (4th Edit). 



New Concepts: https://www.routledge.com/Contemporary-Foundations-for-Teaching-English-as-an-Additional-Language/Vinogradova-Shin/p/book/9780429398612



 


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