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This course prepares fundamental principles and best practice of testing and assessment for English language teachers at the undergraduate level. It considers a range of concepts and skills of assessing learners’ English language proficiency. Issues such as testing methods, testing techniques, and evaluation measures are brought into class discussions and analyses. Students are required to work on different types of testing for different skills, including pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and the four macro language skills. A critical perspective on common testing methods and procedures is employed for the exploration of their limitations on validity and washback effects.

This course is designed to provide fourth-year TESOL students with professional experiences in real

This is a foundational course for research conducting and reporting. Students are exposed to popular genres of research publications and a thorough procedure of conducting research. They need to come up with a research objective, review relevant literature, design instruments, collect primary data, identify the findings, and make concrete conclusions. Students have an opportunity to sharpen their skills in proposal writing, data analysis reporting, research ethics considering, and academic conventions observing. Other relevant skills to prepare for early-career researchers are also included. The course fosters students’ capability of independence in research activities to facilitate their learning quality and research motivation.

This course is to provide English-majored freshmen at HCMUTE with the overview of TESOL programme, expected learning goals and outcomes as well as career orientation.