This course focuses on the choice of right words and phrases and the appropriate techniques for teachers when they use English to give instructions, ask questions, make comments, give disciplinary intervention in the classroom and encourage their learners to respond in English. The course also examines the English classroom as a communicative context with regular patterns of communication that are negotiated between teachers and students and helps teachers develop ways of promoting more effective patterns of discourse in the English classroom. In particular, issues related to the medium of instruction and the code-switching phenomenon in Macao classrooms will be discussed.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Use the right choice of words and phrases and appropriate techniques when they perform different speech acts required of an English teacher.
CILO-2: Raise their awareness of the language a teacher uses in the English language classroom and examine the functions and effectiveness of teacher language in specific classroom scenarios.
CILO-3: Examine issues related to the medium of instruction and code-switching phenomenon in Macao classrooms and discuss the issues in form of a classroom forum.