Transcript
Intensive English
Summer 2013
BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
Part 1
What is IE?
• A preparatory English course for English-medium studies
• Focusing on every-day life English and academic English
• The course is mandatory for 1st year students of MFU
• The course is NOT the prerequisite to any courses offered at MFU
Know your students
• All 1st year students• Students exempted from this course are
those who have:– O-Net score (English) 40 (out of 100) or
above– IELTS score 4.5 or above– TOEFL score 450 or above– Proof that they are native speakers of English
Know your students
HOWEVER• Exempted students are allowed to
enroll in this course
Enrollment fee• 3,600 THB
What we expect
After the completion of this course, students will be able to:• correctly and appropriately use ordinary and academic
vocabulary;• communicate in different situations in intermediate spoken
and written English with grammatical and structural correctness;
• identify main ideas, specific information, facts and opinions in reading passages;
• write complete sentences using various and appropriate syntactic structures;
• apply learning strategies according to their own learning styles and multiple intelligences.
What we give to our students
Assignments
• Writing 10%• Independent study 5%• External reading 15%• Term project 10%
Tests
• Midterm 30%• Final 30%
**Details of each criterion will be discussed further**
How students pass the course
• The course is S (pass) / U (fail)
Grading scale
S 60 – 100
U 0 –59
THE INSTRUCTIONPart 2
The course book• 12 units total
– Unit 1 – 10 are compulsory– Unit 11 – 12 are optional
• Student’s book only. No workbook.
• Purchase: – MFU bookstore– 350 THB– Must be purchased within
Monday, May 26th
Classroom policy
Class attendance • Students must attend 80% of all in-class
instruction (15 hours per week) • The final exam score will be counted “zero” for
students absenting themselves from classes more than 20% (18 hours / 6 class periods)
• Late coming policy and other policies for classroom misconduct are subject to the instructor’s consideration.
Course requirement
• Writing assignments – Throughout the course, students will
periodically be assigned four pieces of free paragraph writing with different focuses on the sentence structures.
Course requirement
• Writing assignments – Each assignment is worth 2.5%. The instructor will
assign the topic, length, and requirements for each assignment.
– The objective of writing assignments is to enhance students’ sentence writing. Grammatical accuracy and regular writing practice are taken into account.
– Paragraph organization (i.e. unity, topic sentence, supporting details, conclusion) is not taken seriously at this level.
Course requirement
• External Reading (15%)
Each student will read ONE book assigned by the instructor. Upon reading the book, students are required to keep…1. Portfolio (10%)
• 4 Worksheets will be assigned weekly by the instructor. All worksheets will be collected in the form of a portfolio and will be submitted to the instructor by the end of the course.
2. Handmade dictionary (5%) • each student will record the learned vocabulary, idioms and
expression from the book in the form of a dictionary The handmade dictionary will be collected as a part of the portfolio.
Classroom policy
SALLC attendance• SALLC session is required 1 hour per
week.• Students will be advised by the TAs.• TAs will assign worksheets to students,
collect them and hand them over to instructors.
• The worksheets are taken into account in the 5% for Independent study.
Course requirement
• Independent Study– Students are required to attend SALLC
session is required 1 hour per week.– Students will be advised by the TAs.– TAs will assign worksheets to students, collect
them and hand them over to instructors.– The worksheets are taken into account in the
5% for Independent study.
Course requirement
• Term Project– Term project (10%) will emphasize the oral
skills.– Students will give an approximate 5 minutes
oral presentation, as a group up to 5 members, based on the external reading materials.
– The presentation of term project will take place during the class period on Friday, July 4th.
– Two instructors will be paired up and evaluate the presentation.
Course requirement
• Term Project
Content– The presentation should not be retelling of the story in the
book. Rather, students will come up with their own insights from the book, and develop them into the topic of the presentation.
Suggested content– Analysis of the characters– Comparison of the book to other literature, daily life, current
situations, etc.– Comparison of the book to film adaptations– Discussion of the theme, social background, cultural
background, etc.
Course requirement
• Term Project
Delivery – Students feel free to employ any types of media, for
instance, PWP, flow charts, diagrams, video clips, drawings, etc.
Suggested presentation style:– Skit– Puppet show– TV shows (news, interviews, game shows, etc.)– Interactive games– Panel discussion, seminar
Sharing materials
• Am Headway 2 Students’ book• Audio materials (available on Google Drive)
• SALLC worksheet• External reading worksheet
Extra material
• NREM booklet Food is Life, Save Food!
• This is the material for students to read for pleasure. No assessment needed.
Score Log
• Breakdown score spread sheet• Online score logging
(Aj. Jip)
How to teach IE and stay calm
1. Priority: try to cover all 10 units of the main material.
2. Make sure you log the scores REGULARY.
3. Make sure your students will FINISH the external reading book they choose.
4. Make sure you keep up with every assignment schedule.
Q & A
Part 3
Next steps
• IE Workshop on May 19th
• Volunteered speakers for the workshop
top related