Assignment 1: Case Study
Based on your own experience of teaching or learning ESL/EFL (or learning a language other than English if you are a native speaker of English without teaching experience) in previous schools or universities in your country as a case, try to identify the weaknesses as well as strengths of the language teaching. Provide your opinions on how to improve the situation. This case study must be in essay form with up-to-date references as a support for your arguments. (Personal “I” can be used in this writing.)

Assignment 2: Methodology Analysis
Select a distinctive methodology that you are familiar with and research its background. Review the potential effectiveness of the approach and explain how you would adapt its techniques to suit your classroom in the social and cultural context of your own country. Give reasons for selecting the approach in the current educational climate.

Assignment 3: Program Design
Prepare five detailed lesson plans for a sequence of ESL lessons as a unit suitable for a future class that you wish to teach. Be careful to provide a brief description of the class and classroom and show how you would incorporate motivation, communication, assessment and support for the achieving of your stated outcomes. Resource of using computer assisted language learning should be included in your Unit.