Type of Credit: Elective
Credit(s)
Number of Students
This course aims to provide students with a general understanding of the major approaches, theories, and issues of ELT curriculum and materials design. The following topics will be discussed:
These concepts will be taught by a discussion-based and project-based teaching method; that is, we will discuss the above abstract topics by developing and examining different ELT syllabus/curriculum/course designs and various kinds of ELT materials. By so doing, this course aims to equip students with the ability to critically analyze, design, and evaluate an ELT course and teaching materials.
能力項目說明
By the end of the course, students are able to
| 教學週次Course Week | 彈性補充教學週次Flexible Supplemental Instruction Week | 彈性補充教學類別Flexible Supplemental Instruction Type |
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Week |
Date |
Course Content & Assigned Reading |
Assignment |
Learning Hours |
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1 |
02/17 |
Introduction |
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2 |
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2 |
02/24 |
Curriculum Development: Overview Richards (2017): C1 Macalister & Nation (2010): C1 |
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2 |
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3 |
03/03 |
Needs Analysis & ESP Richards (2017): C4 (pp. 79-101) C5 Cowling (2007): planning for a company (1) |
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6 |
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4 |
03/10 |
Curriculum Aims & Outcome Richards (2017): C6 Curriculum Guidelines: TBA HK, Japan, Singapore, China, Taiwan |
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3 |
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5 |
03/17 |
CLIL (I): Lin (2016): C2(2), C5(3), C6(4) *Discussion: Bring an outline of your course design project for peer feedback |
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6 |
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6 |
03/24 |
CLIL (II): Coyle et al. (2010): C3 Theory (5) C5 Materials (6) Anagnostou (2016): CLIL in Art (7) Schat et al. (2020): Materials (8) Tsou & Huang (2022): 4C 2++ (中文) |
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8 |
|
7 |
03/31 |
*Individual Conference (course design: needs analysis) @ Research Building 715 |
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12 |
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8 |
04/07 |
ELF awareness (I): Empirical Evidence Cogo & Dewey (2012) C3 (lexico-grammar) (9), 4 (adaptive process) (10), 5 (pragmatics) (11) |
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6 |
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9 |
04/14 |
ELF awareness (II): Pedagogy Sifakis (2019): basic principle (12) Sifakis et al. (2021): case study (13) |
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6 |
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10 |
04/21 |
Multiliteracies & multimodality (I) Lee et al. (2019): PBL (14) Liang & Lim (2020): digital literacy (15) Reyes-Torres & Raga: picture book (16) |
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6 |
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11 |
04/28 |
Linguistic and Content Analysis Chao (2011): Hidden curriculum of cultural content (17) Limberg (2016): how to apologize (18) * Discussion: Outline of your syllabus |
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4 |
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12 |
05/05 |
Beyond CLIL … Meyer et al. (2018): CLIL & deep learning Lai & Huang (2021): emotion in curriculum development * Discussion: Micro-Teaching |
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4 |
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13 |
05/12 |
*Individual Conference (Syllabus & micro-teaching) @ Research Building 715 |
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12 |
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14 |
05/19 |
No Class (運動會) |
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0 |
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15 |
05/26 |
Micro-teaching (I) |
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9 |
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16 |
06/02 |
Micro-teaching (II) |
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9 |
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17 |
06/09 |
Guest Speaker: TBA |
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0 |
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18 |
06/16 |
Presentation of course design projects Wrap-up |
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12 |
Grading
-Design approximately one-semester course with needs analysis and research for justification. 30%
-Promote your course with a short video. 10%
4 Textbook adaptation and micro-teaching: 20% (pair work) (ppt. & handouts)
-Analyze and evaluate a lesson with a focus you choose from any textbooks or materials.
-Conduct micro-teaching with brief presentation of your analysis and justification.
Materials can be downloaded from Dropbox.
1. Attendance & Participation: Your attendance, participation, and contribution are highly valued by all of us. So, please notify me in advance if you are going to be absent from class. Also, please attend class ON TIME. Students entering class later than 30 minutes after the bell rings are counted as absent. You will NOT pass the course if you are absent over THREE times (with or without any valid excuses). 2. Assignments: All the assignments should be uploaded to dropbox before the deadline). No late work will be accepted unless an emergency indicates otherwise. Notification in advance (one day earlier) is expected. All papers should be single spaced and written in APA style. No data obtained from your previous classes, work, or projects can be used. Please do not use this class’s assignment for other courses and vice versa. 3. Plagiarism: Plagiarism will not be tolerated in this class. If you plagiarize others’ texts and/or ideas, you will not pass the course. 4. Doctoral students will be expected to mentor M.A. students and make more presentations. 5. For any technical problems, please email my teaching assistant and cc me.