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Overview All the TEFL Programs
EFL 501 Language Learning and Acquisition
This course introduces various teaching theories and history backgrounds. Each teaching theories has their unique application. Teaching not only knows the academic knowledge but also notices emotional reaction. Teacher should know why students have these reactions, how to deal with these problems and how to develop better teaching way.
My work: Visual-Learning
EFL 503 Descriptive Linguistics of American English
This course includes two main part: phonology and grammar. The teacher taught us the difference between vowels and consonants. How may ways can we use to teach phonics? Of course, we should know "What is language?" The grammar book is amazing. It lists a lot of "useful ways." It is a good teaching grammar book.
My work: Lesson Plan -
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EFL 505 Overview of TESOL Methodology
In this course, we learned some famous teaching methodologies. We have two teachers: Fran and Gary. They don't teach each teaching methodology. They ask students to take turn performing different teaching methodologies. They hope that we can realize all the key points in these teaching methodologies.
My work: Lesson plan
EFL 504 Curriculum Development and Design
In this course, the teacher ask us to think about how to design our own curriculum development. How many outside and inside factors should we consider before we design out curriculum? Where is our teaching location? How many students are there in a class?How old are students? How many goals do students want to reach? It is a very useful class.
My work:Poetry
EFL 523 Listening and Speaking Techniques
In this course, we have two teachers: Tim and Rosemary. Similarly, they don't teach each listening and speaking ways. They want each student to perform these techniques. Then, all the students discuss advantages and disadvantages. In addition, we need to write down our reflections. They want to know how about students' feeling and opinions.
My work:Lesson plan
EFL 537 Computer Assisted Language Learning
In this  course, we should learn how to build a website. Frankly speaking, this course  is so  hard for me. Actually, I can't escape it. I need to overcome my computer skills and practice many times. The good news is "We have a kind teacher." Even we ask a lot of silly questions, he still keep patience and reply to us.
My work: MP3
EFL 531 Pronunciation Techniques
In this course, the teacher ask us to play a drama and reading a poem. He trust that these way can train us how to realize the intonations, find the right pronunciation locations and correct wrong pronunciations. In addition, each student should have a "pronunciation partner." We should help our partners to correct their  pronunciations.
My work: Homophones Lesson Plan
EFL 525 Reading and Writing Techniques
In this course, the teacher uses two books to tell us how to teach reading and writing. I like these books, they are so useful and easy knowing. The teacher asks us to find 6 books of reading and writing. Then, we need to introduce two books in  the 6 books. In this assignment, I  learned how to choose "good" text books and compare their differences.
My work: Final Present ion
EFL 536 Content-Based Instruction
In this course, the teacher introduces a great teaching methodology "CBI". It includes 30 teaching parts. Each  part  has unique function and expression. Actually, CBI is a big project. I have twice chance to practice it. One is group work. Another is personal work. I like to do by myself because I would like to figure out all the details. It is a worthy class.
My work: SIOP
EFL 502 Evaluation and Assessment
In this course, the teacher introduces a lot of different assessments. She gives us so many teaching materials. The teacher really know how to do evaluation and assessment. She also has a lot of teaching experiences. I enjoy her teaching style.
My work: 3 questions
EFL 540 Socio-Cultural Context of Language Teaching
In this course, the teacher introduces the history background of the language. Social-linguistic analyzes  some differences between genders, ages, education levels and working environments. It also involves unique "body languages." These contents help us to know "mental reaction."
My work:Study Review
EFL 599 Supervised practice Teaching
In this course, I should do 20 hours for observation and 20 hours for teaching. Fortunately, I have a good cooperating teacher -"Mrs. Frink." She teaches me a lot. For example, she emphasize the importance of the rules. All the students need to follow the rules of the classroom.  It meant that classroom management is a key point.
My work: Lesson Plan


Overview My Personal CALL Toolkits
SeaMonkey: It is a simple software to build  my personal  website.
Audacity: It is a good record software to record the voice or conversation.
Skype: It is very a convenient communication software, especially in "class cancellation."
Yugma: It is very suitable for "group studying." People take turn watching others works.
FTP: It can upload and download to your web space.
Hot Potatos:  It provides different kinds of question types. I can design my questions, according   to my necessary.
Irfanview: It is used in "fixing photo". I can use it to adjust the size and crop the view.
Firefox: Basically, it is a browser software. Before I never use it.
Bobble share: It combines online album and audio. It also records my happy memory.
Lame Encoder: It is a necessary file so that I can export mp3 files from Audacity.
Powerpoint: I use it to do my presentation. It is a very useful tool.
Del.ico.us: I can use it to categorize my favorite websites. Actually, I don't like this tool. In IE or Firefox, I also can use "bookmark" to categorize some websites. I don't need any user name or password. For me, I don't think that it is a good Call toolkits.
Flickr: It is a online album. It is very easy to use it. I like it.
Wordpress: It provides different web styles to build your own web space. Of course, all the steps are very easy to learn it.
Google reader: It records and categorizes any kind of "rss subscription."


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