Compulsory

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.

Teaching practicum is an integral component of teacher education. This course provides the final year students with opportunities to make class observations and to practice teaching English as a Foreign Language in a real-life classroom. It is expected that student teachers are able to integrate theory and practice of teaching and learning English as a Foreign Language and their links. Through supervised teaching practice, student teachers will gain insight into the classroom teaching and learning, develop a range of teaching skills and understandings necessary to design lesson plans, conduct micro-teaching, actually deliver lessons as well as successful classroom management. Student teachers also have further ESP teaching practice.

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.