Module#9 Course Design: course syllabus & course cover letter

Cover Letter

Soo Hyun Kim
Ansan- si Gyeonggi-do, Korea .
(070)7760-8087
December 17, 2010

Antoaneta Bonev, Ph.D.
California State University, San Bernardino
5500 University ParkwaySan Bernardino, CA 92374

Course Syllabus
Course Title: Fun and Practical English 101
Instructor: Soo Hyun Kim
E-mail: shkim29@gmail.com
Year: 2011
Grade Level: 9th in EFL
Proficiency Level: Regular (or Intermediate)
Class Meetings: Five times a week
Time: 45-minute sessions
Duration: 1 semester (16 weeks)

Course Description

The purpose of this course is to improve students’ communication skills in English in speaking, listening, and writing their own plays as well as performing them. This will motivate the students to apply what they learn during class to actual usage. After this course, students will be able to express and communicate in various topics and will be able to write and perform according to what they learned during class. This course pursues not only enhancing English proficiency but also helping them to have interest in learning a language and applying them.

Course Outline by Quarters (i.e. quarter of 4 weeks)

1. Practical Communication (listening and grammar with special focus on speaking and writing)
2. Writing
3. Grammar
4. Presentation/Class Play

Standards

TESOL ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students: Grades 9-12
http://www.cal.org/resources/archive/langlink/0300.html

Goal 1: To use English to communicate in social settings
Students will:
1. use English to participate in social interaction
2. interact in, through, and with spoken and written English for personal expression and enjoyment
3. use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence

Goal 2: To use English to achieve academically in all content areas
Standards for Goal 2
Students will:
1. use English to interact in the classroom
2. use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form
3. use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge
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Goal 3: To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways Standards for Goal 3
Students will:
1. use the appropriate language variety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting
2. use nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting
3. use appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and sociocultural competence
.
Course Objectives

1. Students will use English to communicate in social interaction.
2. Students will speak and write English for personal expression and enjoyment.
3. Students will use learning strategies to extend their communicative competence.
4. Students will use English to interact in the classroom.
5. Students will use English to obtain, process, construct, and provide subject matter information in spoken and written form
6. Students will use appropriate learning strategies to construct and apply academic knowledge
7. Students will use the appropriate language variety, register, and genre according to audience, purpose, and setting.
8. Students will use nonverbal communication appropriate to audience, purpose, and setting.
9. Students will use appropriate learning strategies to extend their sociolinguistic and sociocultural competence

Course Policies

• All cell phones/pagers MUST be turned off during class time.
• Students are expected to attend each class. Daily attendance will be taken and 1 pt is awarded per day of attendance.
• Each student is expected to read assigned material prior to class and participate in class discussions.

Required Texts:

1. Elliott, R. (2006). Painless Grammar.
2. Hanyang University press (2005). Practical English Communication.
3. Haugnes, N. & Maher, B. (2009). NorthStar 2 Reading and Writing.

Grading Policy:

Attendance (1 pt per day) = 80 pts
Quizzes (3 Quizzes per semester x 10 pts) = 30 pts
Test (2 Tests per semester x 30 pts) = 60 pts
Playwright Assignment = 30 pts
Midterm Exam = 50 pts
Final Exam = 100 pts
Final Presentation = 100 pts
Total 450 pts
* Grades will be given according to the following scale:
A 400-450 pts
B 350-399 pts
C 300-349 pts
D 250-299 pts
F below 249 pts

Make up Work Policy

Students’ attendance must be 70% or better in order to successfully pass this course. Students shall be responsible for obtaining and completing make up assignments and tests after absences (with a note from home or from the doctor, i.e. an excused absence). Students shall be permitted to take tests administered in class ONLY due to an excused absence. For missed classes, the teacher may assign the student make-up work when he/she returns to class. All work must be made up within two days after the student returns to class unless other arrangements are made with the teacher.

Course Assessments:• Quizzes (10 points)

There will be a quiz on week #2, #6, and #10. Quizzes will consist of what we have discussed in class as well as the reading assignment.
• Tests (30 points)
There will be a test on week #4 and #12. The tests will be given in a bigger scale than the quizzes and will consist of all our discussions as well as the reading assignment.
• Playwright (30 points)
During the last quarter (from weeks 13-16), students will be asked to write a play together in a group. They will be asked to write their own part first during the first week (week#13) per group and then they are to bring it altogether in order to come up with a one merging play. All student participation is required to earn the appropriate points.
• Final Presentation (100 points)
Students in their groups who have written the play will need to put on the play together as their final presentation. Each student will be evaluated according to their writing and performance individually as well as in their groups. All props, costumes, backdrops, etc., must be in place for the setting of the play.
• Midterm Exam (50 pts) and Final Exam (100 pts)
These exams will be cumulative of all the chapters covered and topics discussed. Midterm exam will consist of all the chapters covered previously and the final exam will consist of all the chapters covered during the entire semester.

Course Tentative Outline