Sunday 1:15 - 2:05 PM
Cosmos B
Domains of Curricular Content for English Language Teacher Education
Programs in Taiwan
Hsi-nan Yeh
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
To evaluate a teacher education program, an essential step is to look
into the curriculum for its framework and constituents. Jack Richards (1998)
proposed six domains of content as constituting the core knowledge base
of second language teacher education (SLTE@-theories of teaching, teaching
skills, communication skills, subject matter knowledge, pedagogical reasoning
and decision making, and contextual knowledge. This study is to examine
the curricula of three major SLTE programs in Taiwan, which supply more
than 90% percent of English teachers in local secondary schools, within
Richards' framework. The purpose is two-folded. The first is to identify
the curriculum design patterns of SLTE programs in Taiwan. The second is
to locate the discrepancies between planned and implemented curricula through
a questionnaire administered to senior students in the programs.
His-nan Yeh holds a Ph.D. degree in curriculum and instrustion from
the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently teaching ESL Teaching
Methods and Materials, Teaching Practicuum, and several other courses in
the Department of English. Dr. Yeh's research interests focus on
ESL program evaluation, testing, and ESL teacher education. |