Mythology and Folklore

Explores mythology and folklore from different countries to gain insights into people's origin, desires, fears, instincts, and needs. 

Speech and Theater Arts

This course provides the pre-service English teachers an examination of the process of oral communications and the various forms of speech arts from public speaking and group discussions to debate, oral interpretation, and dramatics.

Technical Writing

Survey of English and American Literature

Engages students in a historical survey of selected literary works produced by understanding English and American literatures from its beginnings to the 21st century. 

Teaching and Assessment of Literature Studies

This course allows pre-service English teachers to explore the nature of literature and the theoretical bases, principles, and methods and strategies in teaching and assessing literature. It aims to provide them with various strategies for pre-lesson, during lesson, and post-lesson which will develop their learners’ higher order thinking skills in the use of the English language and will respond to their various backgrounds. Also, they are expected to design developmentally-sequenced lesson plans and provide a range of assessment strategies to communicate learners’ needs, progress and achievement in literature.

Teaching and Assessment of Grammar

This course equips the pre-service English teachers with understanding and teaching strategies that are responsive to their students’ linguistic backgrounds considering the principles of formative and summative assessments.

Language Research

Language, Culture and Society

Principles and Theories of Language Acquisition and Learning

This course provides an avenue for the pre-service English teachers to examine and demonstrate content knowledge on the principles, factors, and contexts of language acquisition and learning based on theories and research findings. Moreover, this course enables them to explore and analyze the relationship of language learning principles and theories to classroom practice.