This course is intended to provide a review of issues and methods in second language education, and apply this knowledge to evaluate various teaching methods and testing tools.
At the end of this course, students should be familiar with the terminology used in second language education, and able to criticize or explain the relevance of language teaching and testing tools.
The course format is primarily made of lectures, pair or group work and in-class discussions, all of which are conducted exclusively in English.
Participation, short teaching sample, written report and a final exam
The reading material will be provided by the instructor.
This course is not related to teaching only English. It is a general course on how to teach languages in general. Students will be free to choose the language they want to teach for their teaching sample and written report.