Curriculum

Credit requirements for graduation

Curriculum

Courses Abstract

• English Pronunciation
  Study of how to pronounce English sounds at the level of phonemes, syllables, words, phrases, and sentences along with the notion of stress, rhythm, intonation, and so on
• English Conversation
  Guided practice in interactive communication for beginners for a variety of every language functions.
• Cultural Literacy Education for English Teachers
  This course aims to cultivate a wide range of cultural perspectives and intellectual insights to help students understand not only the significance and function of foreign language education but also the complicated problems of reality and the world, which is indispensable to making a successful English teacher. Through this course, students who want to be an English teacher can be equipped with the essential knowledge of English education and British and American culture to cultivate themselves and teach their students in the future.
• Reading, Writing, and Speaking for English Teachers
  This course aims to enhance the reading, writing, and speaking abilities required to make a successful English teacher by providing a diversity of interesting learning opportunities that encourage students to enjoy various reading materials, writing experiences, and speaking practices. This course provides students with a series of chances in which they learn how to understand and express in a logical and organized way. They are also given a series of opportunities in which they practice how to teach their students in the future with their reading, writing ,and speaking abilities.
• The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Future of English Education
  By helping students understand a diversity of radical changes and transformations in the age of the fourth industrial revolution, this course aims to lead them to learn the effect of the fourth industrial revolution on future of English education. Students will have an opportunity to study and practice what are necessary to prepare for the future as an effective English educator by understanding the correlation between the fourth industrial revolution and future of English education.
• English Grammar
  Study of pedagogical school grammar points expressed in metalanguages such as articles, nouns, subject, verbs, subjunctive, etc.
• Introduction to English Literature
  This course aims to help students design and practice English literature course by equipping them with insightful ability to teach English literature in order to enable them to meet the conditions necessary for managing successful English literature course.
• Understanding English Language
  This course aims to address the issues beyond the grammatical aspects of English, necessary to the teachers-to-be such as language and brain, language and thought, language in society, language change, the history of writing, and so on.
• Understanding New Perspectives on English Education
  This course, especially designed for freshmen, aims to provide future English teachers with a basic grounding in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) in Korea. Pre-service English teachers foster a basic sense of value and responsibility as English teachers based on their understanding of the qualifications and roles of teachers, and learners under the circumstances of EFL in Korea.
• Cosmopolitan Citizenship Education for English Teachers
  This course helps students to develop the qualities necessary to fulfill their duties and rights as citizens of the world by means of empathic education, human rights education and collaborative education. Through this course, students will be able to foster the necessary skills required for English teachers who can provide cosmopolitan citizenship education for middle school and high school students and explore various possibilities for putting cosmopolitan citizenship education into practice.
• Introduction to English Education
  The course focuses on the theories and research in second language acquisition and encourages students to consider the implications of research for classroom pedagogy. The similarities and differences of first and second language acquisition, variables affecting second language learning, and developmental learner languages are studied and discussed in depth.
• Introduction to English Linguistics
  A critical survey of the internal history of English language: its sounds, grammar, and word stock, tracing the history of the language from prehistoric Indo-European days through Old English, Middle English, and early Modern English up to the present time.
• Practicing Cooperative Learning-based English Education
  This course aims to help students comprehend the increasingly important function and significance of a new model of English education based on cooperative learning, which is attracting much attention as a model of future education. This course also helps students cultivate their ability to lead new English education by learning new theories and practicing new methods of cooperative learning-based English education. Through this course students will be able to understand the importance and practical use of cooperative learning-based English education and will be equipped with the ability to implement the new educational model in classroom.
• Practicing Learner-centered English Education
  This course aims to help students to understand the purpose, function, and significance of learner-centered English language education as a new model of future English education. This course also helps students cultivate their ability to lead new English education by learning recent theories of learner-centered English education and practicing them. Through this course, students will understand the importance and practical use of learner-centered English language education and will be equipped with the ability to implement the new educational model in classroom.
• English Phonology
  Introducing the students to the English sound pattern: the way they pattern with respect to each other, the way they are used to make up words and phrases, and the changes they undergo. The applicable aspects of the theories will also be examined.
• English Vocabulary & Morphology
  This course is designed to help students understand the etymology of words and increase their vocabulary power through the understanding of the internal structure of word roots, stems, and affixes.
• English Teaching Methods for Secondary Schools
  This course aims to provide pre-service English teachers with theoretical background and characteristics of each teaching method, from grammar translation method (GTM) to communicative language teaching (CLT) and task-based language teaching (TBLT). Along with these theoretical background and characteristics, pre-service English teachers have a practical opportunity to demonstrate each teaching method, learning various teaching activities to teach four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) of English.
• Practicing Cooperative Learning-based Education of British and American Culture
  This course is designed to help students study and develop a variety of educational models of teaching British and American culture by using cooperative learning model which is attracting attention as a model of future education. Through this course students will be able to provide a new way of English language education using cooperative learning-based education of British and American culture for middle and high school students.
• Creative Teaching Practices in English Instruction
  Through taking this course, pre-service English teachers will have an opportunity to cultivate competencies to teach young students in the actual classroom by recognizing a variety of issues and problems of the classroom, and taking creative solutions. Also with performing team projects, students will increase their sense of teaching practices and creative thinking based on their knowledge of creative teaching and learning methods. Furthermore, pre-service English teachers will learn creative teaching and learning activities that can be applied to the field of future globalized English education.
• Teaching English Reading Comprehension
  Teaching how to read texts written in English as pre-service teachers, and improving their reading ability as readers
• English Syntax
  Students learn Chomsky's theory of Generative Grammar and, on the basis of it, how to analyze English syntactic structures. Students are guided to develop keen insights into English syntactic analysis. This course gives students a thorough grounding in the basics of sentence structure and acquaints them with the essentials of syntactic argument.
• Understanding of English Semantics
  This introductory course in English semantics will cover the basis of semantics on vocabulary and formal semantics. Students are guided to the study of meaning in the English language and how language is used, providing a solid foundation for further semantic studies.
• Cooperative Learning-based Global Citizenship Education
  By providing students with a diversity of materials and sources for global citizenship education, this course help them learn to understand the basic theoretical foundations of global citizenship and have various opportunities to put what they learn in class into practice. Students will practice a variety of teaching skills of cooperative-learning to apply them to global citizenship education.
• English Composition
  Basic writing practice in narration, description of people and places, critical evaluation, etc.
• Logic and Writing of English
  This course provides students with logical thinking and writing of English literature, and English Education. Logical and creative writing samples, basic laws and structural features for logical and creative writings are introduced.
• Teaching Materials and Methods of English Teaching
  This course aims to give students an opportunity to explore the theory and practice of materials and methods in English language teaching. The students are requested to choose a set of materials to assess individually, working towards the dual objective of analyzing the materials as thoroughly as possible and developing the materials (methods of using them) in their current or future work.
• English Language Testing
  Understanding theoretical and practical aspects of English testing, and studying how to measure young students' English proficiency
• Advanced English Grammar
  Grammar, in general, refers to linguistics in a broad sense or pedagogical grammar in a narrows sense. This course is designed to integrate the concepts of general linguistics into the teaching of school grammar in order to deepen the knowledge of traditional school grammar.
• English Pragmatics
  The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to contemporary linguistic pragmatics, which is necessary to teachers-to be. Pragmatics is defined as the systematic study of meaning by virtue of language use, and the central topics of pragmatics include implicature, presupposition, speech acts, deixis, and so on.
• Seminar in British and American Culture
  Comparing Korean culture with English culture and also a study of how to teach the secondary school students the aspects of English culture effectively.
• English Sentence Structures
  This lecture focuses on the basic principles of constructing English sentences with words and paragraphs with sentences and enables students to comprehend sentences and build paragraphs as well.
• Seminar on English Language
  This course aims to discuss langage matters, necessary to the teachers and in the school such as why it is hard to learn a second language, one person’s speech can be better than other’s, why dialects differ from standard language, and so on.
• Studies of English Curriculum for Secondary Schools
  This course aims to develop pre-service English teachers' knowledge of transition processes and characteristics of the national English curriculum, theories and models of English curriculum. Therefore, they will be equipped with basic knowledge about English curriculum that is required as an English teacher in the future.
• Intensive English Language Course and Teaching Demonstration 1
  This course aims to enable prospective English teachers to reinforce their teaching competency by cultivating the major English skills and devise a successful English course by demonstrating teaching and providing feedback and evaluation on their teaching.
• Intensive English Language Course and Teaching Demonstration 2
  This course aims to enable prospective English teachers to reinforce their teaching competency by cultivating the major English skills and devise a successful English course by demonstrating teaching, providing feedback and evaluation on their teaching, and a series of workshops with English teachers.