Teaching Writing
This three-hour-per-week course has two main areas of focus, both of which revolve around composition, but from different angles. Part of the course is designed to provide students instruction and practice which will enable the students to improve their composition skills.
Teaching reading
This course aims to develop teachers' abilities to teach reading. With this aim, the course first explores different theoretical perspectives underlying second language reading before introducing various instructional reading interventions. In addition to exposure to numerous exemplary reading practices, students will have many opportunities to try out specific teaching techniques.
Research Methodology
This course provides an introductioin to the research principles and common methodologies used in applied linguistics and education research. In exploring fundamental research concepts and techniques, the course offers students opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills to locate, interpret, critique, and design research.
Computer Mediated Communication in Language Education
This course explores the linguistic characteristics and language learning affordances of computer-mediated communication (CMC). This exploration includes text-based and oral, synchronous and asynchronous environments and is guided by ideas related to, among others, affordance, instructional conversation, task-based language teaching, and intercultural communicative competence. The course is designed to prepare pre- and in-service teachers with the theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to integrate CMC into their teaching practices.
2016
Digital Gaming and Teaching and Learning
This course explores learning languages through online gameplay, and how to utilize digital games as instructional tools. This exploration is guided and framed by ideas related to communities of practice, language socialization, and task-based teaching. Through engagement with the research and theoretical literature, as well as digital games themselves, the course is designed to develop knowledge about the ways that digital games support language learning and the skills needed to use them in educational contexts.
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
This course has three main goals; (1) to improve the students' knowledge of how the different components of language interact through lexis (vocabulary), (2) to get a feel for the array of different on-line and corpus-based tools available for a usage-based approach to language, and (3) to get the students to develop teaching perspectives in which they can use this new knowledge.
Practicum I
This course has as its main component the running of a detailed Action Research project to be conducted individually by the Practicum participants within their own teaching setting, or inpairs as part of the Sookmyung English-in-Action class teaching team. Each participant in Practicum teaches a class throughout the semester. The action research project requires them to reflect critically on their own teaching situations and implement substantive changes to their own teaching situation.
Practicum II
This course has two main components. The first of these is the reflective component. We will be using the reflective journals and videos taken during the teaching of the participants' courses to reflect on our own individual teaching practices as well as on elements of in-class language learning. The second component of this class revolves around the design and creation of a teaching portfolio. Here we will be working individually and in groups to create a portfolio that highlights our training, skills, and achievements as teachers.