Course Title | Objective | Scope |
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Communicative Activities | To improve oral fluency | Exploring various communicative activities appropriate for elementary school students in Korea |
Conversation | To develop conversation skills | Speaking through various techniques, including group & pair work and whole class discussion. |
Practicum | To improve each trainee’s ability to teach an English lesson using only English | Designing and evaluating a language learning curriculum. Building classroom environments for language learning. Designing lesson plans Developing texts and materials. Performing a model language class. Writing an observation paper. |
Speech Presentation | To develop skills in speech and presentation | Understanding techniques and language for presentation. Giving a successful presentation. |
Small Group Class | To improve skills in speech and debate | Practicing a variety of language functions around topics. |
Integrated Curriculum | To design and employ activities To teach other subjects in English |
Understanding the roles of activities in English class. Creating and applying activities in English class. Teaching Math, Arts and PE in English. Acquiring the target language in natural environments. Promoting team-spirit. |
Effective Literacy | To increase English skills in the areas of reading and writing in English | Reading newspapers and journals for discussion. Designing activities for reading class. |
Listening for Meaning | To improve listening fluency | Listening to authentic English materials. Listening out to perform a variety of speech acts successfully |
Using Drama to teach English | To improve their English language skills through using drama and theater activities | Expressing character, projecting voices so that others can hear them, expressing emotion, body movement, and facial expression, learning stage directions as well as becoming familiar with improvisation |
TESOL in Elementary School | To acquire basic methodological theories in TESOL | Understanding basic terminology. Understanding basic Theories in Class Management and Curriculum Development. Reflective Reading research papers on TEFL . |
Children’s Literature with English Culture | To develop English teaching through the inclusion of activities | Developing English teaching strategy through the inclusion of activities and learning the cultural history of the activities |
Practical Writing | To write short essays and multi-paragraph compositions | Learning how to Brainstorm, pre-write, draft, edit, and publish short & multi-paragraph essays. Constructing short essays for a variety of purposes (informative, descriptive, opinion, etc.) |
PBL | To enhance oral fluency employing project-based learning methods | Developing writing skills through the process of making newspapers. Developing writing and speaking skills by video-making projects. |
Practical Classroom English | To practice practical classroom English | Upgrading the practical speaking, reading, and writing skills in English class and Learning useful and creative classroom activities |
Multimedia | To develop language learning materials through the application of multimedia tools | Acquiring guidance of key aspects of language learning Experiencing examples and discussion of actual classroom materials and techniques |