NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 英文/語文領域英文教材教法(0811)
(Eng.) Teaching Materials and Methods of English
Offering Dept Center of Teacher Education
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher CHEN LI HENG
Department General Language 中/英文 Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description The course is mainly designed to introduce the basic techniques and principles in language teaching. It aims at helping students in the Teacher Education program to be familiar with these principles and then they can apply these principles or teaching methods to their own lesson plans.
After each teaching principle or method has been introduced, students are asked to work with group members to apply the teaching principle or technique to their group teaching demonstration.
Students have to apply these teaching methods/principles to their teaching demonstrations at the end of the semester. Students are encouraged to make good use of these techniques and principles and develop their personal teaching style in their future language teaching.
Prerequisites 教學原理 self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
It aims at helping students in the Teacher Education program to be familiar with these principles and then they can apply these principles or teaching methods to their own lesson plans.
Students are encouraged to make good use of these techniques and principles and develop their personal teaching style in their future language teaching.
1.Curriculum Design and Teaching
2.Class Management and Counseling
3.Professional Ethics and Concern
4.Professional Development and Innovation
5.Communicative Cooperation and Leadership
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Lecturing
Discussion
Visit
Other
Internship
Assignment
Oral Presentation
Attendance
Written Presentation
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Week 1 (09.10): Class Orientation+ Find Group Members +Fill Out Personal Information
Week 2 Week 2 (09.17): Mid-Autumn Festival! (No Class!)
Week 3 Week 3 (09.24): General Introduction: Learners/Teachers
Week 4 Week 4 (10.01): General Introduction: Learners/Teachers
Week 5 Week 5 (10.08): Planning Lessons
Week 6 Week 6 (10.15):
1.The Grammar-Translation Method
2.The Direct Way
Week 7 Week 7 (10.22):
3.The Audio-Lingual Method
4.The Silent Way
Week 8 Week 8 (10.29):
5.Suggestopedia/De-suggestopedia
6.Community Language Learning
Week 9 Week 9 (11.05): Teaching/Classroom Observation教學現場見習(興大附農)
Week 10 Week 10(11.12): Group Teaching Demonstration(1)
Week 11 Week 11(11.19):
7.Total Physical Response
8.Communicative Language Teaching
Week 12 Week 12(11.26):
9.Content-Based Instruction
10.Task-Based Language Teaching
Week 13 Week 13(12.03):
11.The Political Dimensions of Language Teaching & The Participatory Approach
12.Emerging Uses of Technology in Language Teaching & Learning
13.Learning Strategy Training/Cooperative Learning/Multiple Intelligences
Week 14 Week 14(12.10): Group teaching demonstration (2)
Week 15 Week 15(12.17): Personal Teaching Demonstration (1)
Week 16 Week 16(12.24): Personal Teaching Demonstration (2)
Week 17 Week 17(12.31): Personal Teaching Demonstration (3)
Week 18 Week 18(114.01.07): Self-Study Week!
(Students are supposed to give feedback to one of their classmates’ ”Teaching Plan”)
Evaluation
1.Class Performance (including attendance, participation, and preparation): 20%
a. 4 points will be deducted for each absence, and students cannot be absent for the class more than FOUR times, or they will get “0” from their class performance.
b. If students have to ask for a leave, they have to inform the teacher that they cannot come to the class via email (writing down their student id number and name), by asking their classmates to tell the teacher, or by telling the teacher in person in the following week.
2. Lesson Plan: 25%
3. Personal Introduction/Presentation on Teaching Methods: 10%
4. Group Oral Demonstrations & Discussions: 15%
5. Personal Teaching Demonstration: 25%
6. Self-Study(Evaluate One Classmate’s Lesson Plan): 5%

※Personal/Group Oral Presentations on Teaching Methods: (20-25 minutes)
Students are supposed to work with their group members to deliver an English oral presentation on one teaching method or two. They have to make a power-point file to deliver that teaching method and upload their power-point file onto iLearning before their presentations. The presentation will be about 20 minutes and be delivered in English. The other groups have to raise some questions to the presentation groups, and the presentation group is responsible for answering the questions.
※Group Teaching Demonstrations: (15 -20 minutes)
Students are asked to work with their group members to select one teaching method or two to demonstrate how to teach listening, speaking, reading, & writing by using that teaching method. They are supposed to write group lesson plan and submit it to the teacher two weeks before their group teaching demonstration.
※In-Class Discussion:
Students are asked to work with their group members to do some in-class activities, or discussions about each topic and teaching method in class.
※Personal Teaching Demonstration: (15 minutes)
Each student has to have their personal teaching demonstration about 10 minutes.
They can select one lesson from junior or senior high school textbooks and demonstrate it in 10 minutes.
They have to write their own lesson plan and submit their lesson plan to the teacher two week before their teaching demo and give one copy of their lesson plan to all of their classmates when they are having their teaching demonstration.
※Self-Study Week:
Students are supposed to give feedback to one of their classmates’ lesson plan online.
Textbook & other References
Required Textbook:
Larsen-Freeman, Diane, and Marti Anderson. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching. 3rd Ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2011. (ISBN:978019442360)
Reference Books:
1.Harmer, Jeremy. How To Teach English. N. Y.: Pearson Longman, 2007. (ISBN:9781405853095)
2.Harmer, Jeremy. The Practice of English Language Teaching. 5th Ed. N.Y.: Pearson Longman, 2014. (ISBN:9781447980254)
3. Brown, H. Douglas. Principles of Language Learning and Teaching: A Course in Second Language Acquisition. 6th Ed. N.Y.: Pearson Longman, 2014. (ISBN:9780133041941)
4. Richards, Jack C., and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching. 3rd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. (ISBN:9781107675964)
5. Cockrum, Troy. Flipping your English Class to Reach All Learners: Strategies and Lesson Plans. New York: Routledge, 2014. (ISBN:9780415733151)
6.黃國禎主編。《翻轉教室：理論、策略與實務》。台北：高等教育文化事業有限公司，2016年。(ISBN:9789862661376)
7.葛模理著。《Use English!優式英語教學法》。台北：寂天文化事業股份有限公司，2011年。(ISBN:9789861848471)
8. Campoy-Cubillo, Mari Carmen, Begona Belles-Fortuno, & Maria Lluisa Gea-Valor. Eds. Corpus-Based Approaches to English Language Teaching. London and New York: Continuum International Publishing Group, 2012. (ISBN:9781441151988)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Some references or related discussion questions will be uploaded onto iLearning before the class, so students are supposed to download them and preview them before the class.
Office Hours
By Appointment or Class Hours (10:00-17:00, Tuesdays)
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
04.Quality Educationinclude experience courses：Y
Please respect the intellectual property rights and use the materials legally.Please repsect gender equality.
Update Date, year/month/day：2024/08/29 19:25:55 Printed Date, year/month/day：2024 / 9 / 08
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