Teaching Practice I (Reading & Writing) - 20201
Course Description: Teaching Practice 1 is a compulsory subject taken by fifth-semester students of English Language Education at Universitas Internasional Batam. The range of topics to be discussed is started from analyzing theories of teaching, designing lesson plans, making content, and demonstrating teaching practice. Students are expected to be able to practice teaching in class in the end of the course.
Teaching English for Young Learners - 20201
Course Description: Teaching English for Young Learners (TEFYL) is a Compulsory Course for English Language Education students at Universitas Internasional Batam. In this course, students will learn about some theories and techniques in TEFYL. Students are expected to be able to demonstrate and practice TEFYL in the end of semester.
Research in Applied Linguistics and ELT - 20201
Course overview
This course offers current research orientation in applied linguistics (AL) and English Language Teaching (ELT). The students will learn current issues in applied linguistics such as language acquisitions, multimodal perspectives in linguistics, and the use of corpora in current research. In addition, students will also be exposed to some topics in ELT such as translanguaging, bilingual and multilingual education, as well as language and identity. The primary focus of this course is to provide the students with clear background of research in applied linguistics and ELT that include: research design, sampling, method, and analysis by reviewing some scholarly papers and journals on selected topics in AL and ELT. By the end, the students are expected not only to understand but also apply their knowledge in the recent research in AL and ELT. Major areas of interest include: language acquisitions, corpus-based research, translanguaging, multilingual and bilingual education.
Course Instruction
The lecture, individual presentation, question-answer session, as well as report writing are all conducted in English. The students are expected to fully and actively participate in all sessions and encouraged to use English. All teaching materials, books, videos, and papers are also in English.
Class format
The class will be conducted online with combined synchronous and asynchronous meeting. At the synchronous meeting, the students will participate in an online lecture by having discussion, getting involved in question-answer session, as well as the presentation. At the asynchronous meeting, the students are expected to learn independently from the given learning materials from modules, videos, and other relevant references (book chapter/journal articles). And on the latter session, the students will also have to make summary or write reports based on the assigned readings.
Assessments
Midterm test.
This is an individual project where the student has to pick up a topic in applied linguistics or ELT and write a review of that (selected topic). Students should include of minimum 3 studies (journals) in the review of the literature. The length of the review should be between 1300-1500 words.
Final test
This individual task is an essay of selected topics in AL and ELT. Students must propose ideas, topics, current issues, or individual perspectives towards a topic in AL and ELT. They may integrate their previous writing in literature review to this essay. The length of an essay should be between 1500-17000 words.
Individual presentation
Students must present their proposed essay topic by articulating research interest, evaluation, previous studies to support their research topics and so on within 10-15 minutes. After the presentation, students will receive 2-3 questions regarding their presentation.
Topics to be covered:
- Research in Language Acquisition: language milestones, linguistic universal, and descriptive orientation
- Multimodal perspectives in language acquisitions
- Interlanguage and linguistic descriptions of learners’ English
- Current issues in ELT: bilingual/multilingual practices of English
- Corpus research
- Language & identity
- Translanguaging
- Current research in Applied Linguistics and ELT
Further readings
Girffee, D, T. (2012). An introduction to second language research method: design and data. New York: TESL-EJ Publications
Littoselti, L (ed). (2010). Research methods in linguistics. New York: Continuum.
Nunan, D. (1992). Research methods in language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
English Phonetics and Phonology - 20201
Course Description:
This course discusses terminology regarding the development of sound identification skills in English which will help students pronounce pronunciation in English. Therefore, students are expected to be able to identify sounds in English and pronounce English properly and correctly.
English Morphosyntax - 20201
Study Description
English Course Morphosyntax is a compulsory subject for English Language Education at Batam International University. This course integrates knowledge about the formation of the smallest structure of language (morpheme) and the largest such as sentences. Students are expected to be able to identify the process of forming words, phrases, and sentences
Learning Outcome
After learning this course students are supposedly able to :
- Classify and use word classes in English
- Form words through non-suffixation process
- Identify and transform word classes by using appropriate suffixes
- Identify and use symbol of syntactic function
- Identify and analysed phrases in sentences
- and lastly, Identify and analyse surface structure in sentences
Curriculum & Material Evaluation & Design (CMED) II - 20201
Curriculum and Material Evaluation Design 2 course is a compulsory course for English Language Education students at Universitas Internasional Batam. This course is a continuation of CMED I which provides a special evaluation and requires an analysis of curriculum implementation. Students are expected to be able to develop opinions and understandings of curriculum design in language teaching contexts. Students are assisted to examine the selection of teaching materials and assessments used in the curriculum.
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) - 20201
Through this course, students are going to learn how to make use of technology in teaching language, for instance, Learning Management System, Web-based quiz, Apps and Web-based games, and many more. At the end of this course, students can broaden their knowledge and sharpen their creativity to build a well-designed and dynamic online class that utilizes many platforms of technologies.
Reading & Vocabulary - 20201
This Reading and Vocabulary course is a compulsory subject for English Language Education at Universitas Internasional Batam. This course emphasizes on students' basic reading comprehension. The students are expected to be able to develop basic skills in understanding simple English texts. In addition, this course also integrates English vocabulary recognition in certain fields such as family, profession, and other topics that can help students understand simple English texts and enrich vocabulary.
Metodologi Penelitian - 20201
Arapa Efendi S.S.,M.Hum
Course Description
Hi everyone, welcome to Research Methodology Class! The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the basic concepts and principles of research techniques, designs, methodologies, and research writing/reporting. Although research methodology might sound a bit general, but this course particularly focuses on the applied linguistics and English Language Teaching (ELT). Therefore, by the end of this course, the students are expected to:
- Plan and design small-scale study on the aforementioned field.
- Identify research problems and establish the research boundary.
- Formulate research questions/hypothesis
- Use particular research tools to support the interpretation of the data
- Demonstrate the understanding on the philosophy of research, ethics, and research types
- Review and synthesize relevant literature
Assessments
In this course, the students are examined in forms of their active participation in the lecture session, question-answer session, oral presentation, (2) assignments, and final paper/report. The students are also expected to satisfy the following assessments:
There are two major assignments for the first half (assignment_1) and the second half of the semester (assignment_2) that is worth 15% each.
Assignment 1 – Research planning outline & progress report
The students have to make the research planning for the future research they wish to carry out as a final project. This research plan would consist of some important points; 1) research designs; 2) research participants; 3) research methods; 4) philosophical perspectives; 5) the length of the research.
Assignment 2 – individual presentation
By the end of the course, the students are expected to present the planning of their research with some points in (a) are being included in the presentation. Students should demonstrate clear understanding of their future research, conceptual framework, philosophical perspective(s), and the methodology.
Mid-term test: research plan & progress report
Final test: research proposal. Research proposal must include the standard template and use the latest APA 6th format. The research proposal should be written between 1.300-1700 words.
Suggested readings:
Girffee, D, T. (2012). An introduction to second language research method: design and data. New York: TESL-EJ Publications
Littoselti, L (ed). (2010). Research methods in linguistics. New York: Continuum.
Nunan, D. (1992). Research methods in language learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Useful links:
APA Referencing (6th edition) https://aewintecsitefinity.blob.core.windows.net/sitefinity-storage/docs/default-source/study-at-wintec/apa.pdf
Create research spaces (CARS) model of research introduction https://iuuk.mff.cuni.cz/~andrew/EAP/john-swales-cars-article.pdf
FINER https://www.scalelive.com/finer.html
What is your research question? An introduction to the PICOT format for clinicians https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3430448/