Classes I'm Teaching and Those Recently Taught
This is a growing list of courses that I have taught. It's not everything, but a good representation of what I've been doing the last few years+.
Current
- Classroom English
- This is teaching methods course focusing on how to teach English using English. Honestly, I haven't figured out the scope of the course yet. It's a little vague and doesn't have a consistent history. It's been taught more from an EFL standpoint in the past, but I was hired to take these classes into more of a teacher education direction.
- Advanced & Intermediate English Composition
- These are straight foreword composition classes. I see these classes working on both academic writing and more informal writing for communication purposes (email, chat/SMS/Twitter, blogs, etc). The classes will use email/personal messaging for one-to-one communications, discussion forums for one-to-many communications, blogs for journaling (self communication), good ol' handwriting and word processors for process writing, and I'm even considering an animation and/or Twitter creative writing project.
Recent
- Sangmyung University
- English Essay Writing
- This is a writing course for English Education majors. The focus is on writing essays on SLA/TESOL topics for the Teacher Certification Exam. This is a blend of basic writing instruction paired with academic writing on theory and practice.
- English Essay Writing
- Seoul National University
- Public Health Administrators
- This is a beginner-level English class for members of the Public Health Administrators program in the School of Public Health at SNU.
- Academic English Writing
- Focuses on larger pieces of writing. We quickly move through paragraphs and essays and focus more on research writing.
- Conference Preparation
- This is a unique course that attempts to tackle 3 important aspects of conference participation: abstract writing, presentation skills, and conversation. The course is primarily dedicated to presentation skills, with writing and conversation used as a ramp-up and ramp-down to the course.
- English Pronunciation & Listening
- This is a great dual-focus course that initially separates the pronunciation and listening components, but merges them as the course progresses. The dual focus is meant to reduce fatigue (pronunciation for 7 weeks gets tedious) and to emphasize the interaction of the two skill sets.
- English Conversation - Level 4
- This is a conversation course for intermediate/upper-intermediate learners. The course is aimed at increasing fluency through prolonged interactions with both English materials and speakers. The course is loosely organized through a functional syllabus, with nearly half of the course dedicate to discussion of student-derived topics.
- Public Health Administrators
- Indiana University
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) - Default course page
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (summer II 2006)
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (summer II 2005)- The CALL courses were focused on helping pre-service/in-service teachers to integrate technologies into their teaching methods. I see CALL as a part of basic methods, not as a mystical other. I have a personal belief in and focus on adapting existing technologies and resources for use in the language classroom. With the existence of so many resources, why do we need to re-invent the wheel. Therefore, this class focused on finding, evaluating, and repurposing resources for teachers' classroom needs. There was then a secondary focus on developing their own resources and supplementary materials for those times when nothing else will do.
- ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (fall 2005)
ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (spring 2006 - ICP)
ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (spring 2006 - ICCATs)- This course focused on basic TESL/SLA theory and assessment. The theory component included popular learning theories and instructional theories (primarily language instruction theory). The assessment component discussed both common and alternative assessments, which a focus on the latter. These courses were primarily for Indiana ESL teachers, so the projects and examples were geared most for them; however, the fall 2005 class was about 50% international students, so the content changed significantly to meet their needs.
- Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) - Default course page
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