COLLEGE OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE
Department of English
Degrees Offered:B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
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Chair:Huang, I-min
The Department
The English Department is the oldest department at Tamkang University. It owes its origin to the Tamkang English College established in 1950. The Department now includes three programs, granting B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees. In the 2007 academic year, there were 1,122 undergraduates, 93 M.A. students, and 56 Ph.D. students in the Department.
The M.A. and Ph.D. programs both consist of two academic areas of study: English and American Literature and Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The English Department as a Key Department of Tamkang University, is especially funded for the sponsorship of such international academic exchanges as eminent lecture series and international conferences.
The English faculty consists of 36 full-time members and 63 part-time teachers. To improve the quality of instruction and research, the Department is continuously seeking to hire qualified teachers to narrow down the student-teacher ratio. Among the 36 full-time faculty members, 31 of them hold doctoral degrees specializing in literature, teaching English as a foreign language, cultural studies, ecocriticism, or other related fields.
Two admission systems have been simultaneously adopted in the English Department for the three programs. One is through recommendation and the other is through examination. Beginning in the 2002-2003 academic year, one extensional undergraduate class has been opened annually for in-service students through examination.
The extensional courses are offered in the evening and from Saturday afternoons through Saturday evenings.
Faculty
Professors
Lin, Chun-chung ; Lin, Yao-fu ; Sung, Mei-hwa ; Chiu, Han-ping
Associate Professors
Brewer, Warren A. ; Chen, Hwei-mei ; Chen, Yi-wu ; Chen, Yu-shiou; Doty, Darrel P. ; Fahn, Rueih-lirng ; Fang, Cheng-wen ; Guo, Tai-tsung ; Huang, I-min ; Huang, Shu-chun ; Huang, Yueh-kuehy ; Huang, Yung-yu ; McDermott, Don; Shen, Sy-ying ; Tsai, Chen-hsing ; Yang, Ming-tu
Assistant Professors
Chen,Chien-chih ; Chen, Ji-si ; Chen Pei-yun ; Huang, Han-yu ; Lin Yi-ti ; Twu, Ming-hong Alex ; Wang, Ai-ling ; Wang, Hui-chuan ; Wang, Xu-ding ; Wu, I-fen ; Yang, Chen-kuei ; Chang , Yea-huey ; Yu, Hsi-hsi
Lecturers
Lewis, Kevin Alan ; Wu, Yu-yun
Degree Requirements
The Department of English offers two programs for both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees; namely, English and American Literature and TESOL.
- Requirements for a degree of B.A. in English:
Successful completion of 140 credits of courses, including 104 credits of required courses and 20 credits of elective courses. - Requirements for an M.A. degree in English Literature:
Successful completion of 32 credits of courses, including 11 credits of required courses and 21 credits of elective courses.
Students are also required to submit a written master's thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member and pass an oral examination. - Requirements for an M.A. degree in TESOL:
Successful completion of 32 credits of courses, including 13 credits of required courses and 19 credits of elective courses.
Students are also required to submit a written master's thesis completed under the supervision of a faculty member and pass an oral examination. - Requirements for a Ph.D. degree in English Literature:
Successful completion of 34 credits of courses, including 8 credits of required courses and 26 credits of elective courses.
Students are required to pass qualifying examinations within the first five years, publish at least one research paper in an academic journal, submit a written doctoral dissertation completed under the supervision of a faculty member, and pass an oral examination. - Requirements for a Ph.D. degree in TESOL:
Successful completion of 34 credits of courses, including 7 credits of required courses and 27 credits of elective courses.
Students are required to pass qualifying examinations within the first five years, publish at least one research paper in an academic journal, submit a written doctoral dissertation completed under the supervision of a faculty member, and pass an oral examination.
Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Courses
A0015 English (3/3) This course is aimed mainly at improving students' reading comprehension ability with the hope to maintain and strengthen their interest in further learning English.
A0155 Grammar and Literacy (0/1) This course is for students who know something about English grammar and yet wish to advance their grammatical skills as well as to learn rhetoric. Students can achieve these goals through a 4-step course approach---Grammar in Context, Grammar Presentation, Focused Practice and Communication Practice.
A0159 Approaches to Literature (3/3) This course helps students learn how to analyze literature in terms of such elements as plot, character, setting, symbols, and traditional and postmodern forms; to appreciate the aesthetic dimensions of poetry, drama, and fiction.
A0303 English Vocabulary and Idioms (2/0) This course is designed to help students develop their word power, familiarize themselves with word origins, roots, prefixes and suffixes so that they can bear in mind a rich treasury of words.
A0318 Introduction to Western Literature (2/2) This course provides an understanding of the meaning of different cultures ranging from Mesopotamian literature to Modernism, to develop a breadth of knowledge about the cultural paradigm shift of the Western world, and to develop techniques of historical as well as critical analysis for appreciating and understanding arts and literatures.
A0384 Children's Literature (2/0) This course offers an insight into a Western child's literary background; to offer students a greater sense of the rhythm, music, and dramatic possibilities of spoken English; to introduce ideas and themes used in later literary studies; to offer a means of evaluating texts for children.
A0472 American Literature (3/3) A survey of the chronological development and background of American literature from the colonial period to the present.
A0490 English Fiction (2/2) This course is to develop students' techniques of reading, analyzing, and appreciating fiction through such elements as characterization, setting, plot, symbols and thoughts of fiction one after another by studying well-known short stories.
A0496 Current Issues in English (0/2) This course will put emphasis on readings from editorials, columns, commentaries, and in-depth reports/analyses/studies on current topics both domestic and international.
A0504 English Translation (2/2) This course helps students learn translation skills by improving their reading and writing abilities. Both principles and practice of translation are discussed, while the focus is on comparison of Chinese and English both in linguistic and cultural aspects.
A0506 English Composition I (2/2) This course cultivates students' writing ability by promoting a basic knowledge of and techniques of English writing as well as English rhetoric. Emphasis is placed on frequent practice in writing meaningful and idiomatic sentences and paragraphs.
A0507 English Composition II (2/2) Students will familiarize themselves with formal academic writing, expand single-paragraph writing into a multi-paragraph essay, learn more about different forms of writing and reinforce the idea that writing is an ongoing process of shaping ideas, writing, editing, and rewriting.
A0513 English Poetry (2/0) This course is to impart a familiarity with major English and American poets by examining their poetic forms in terms of "sound and sense" and learn how to apply various interpretive strategies to the reading of poetry in general.
A0514 English Literature I (3/3) Medieval Period (Medieval Period to 1485), Early Modern Period (Renaissance through Milton) and Enlightenment (late 17th century through 18th century).
A0515 English Literature II (3/3) 19th Century (early 19th century through early modernism) and 20th century (early modernism to contemporary).
A0528 Methods of Teaching English (2/2) This course surveys traditional as well as current methods of teaching English and discusses the teaching of specific language skills.
A0529 English Conversation (2/2) This course is intended and designed to build up students' ability to communicate in English with a focus on fluency and articulation and to acquaint students with useful expressions in daily conversation.
A0532 English Speech (2/2) This course aims to help students gain the skills of making effective speeches in English. Students will learn how to prepare a speech and how to perform it from this class. Every student has to practice giving speeches in this class.
A0535 Introduction to English Linguistics (2/2) This course is to familiarize students with basic concepts of English linguistics, the nature of human language, the sound of language, and the sound patterns of language.
A0572 Advanced Speech in English (2/0) The purpose of this course is to understand foundations of effective communication and to polish English speaking skills, especially those for public speaking.
A0685 Journalist Writing (2/2) An introduction to journalism for English majors. The course includes extensive practice in newspaper writing, radio and television reporting, public relations, and advertising.
A0709 Biblical Literature (2/2) This course gives an introduction to the Bible as a literary text in its own right.
A0838 Applied English (2/2) This course is designed to provide English majors with basic career skills required for most professional positions in the business arena. It covers topics in resume, application letter, sales letter, order letter, claim letter, survey and report, and so on.
A0888 Women's Literature (0/2) This course is to familiarize students with different contemporary schools of feminists thoughts and the issues which are of great concern to various feminists as a background knowledge to appreciate feminist literature and their political debates and action for empowerment and agency.
A0989 Introduction to Cultural Studies (2/2) This course is designed to help senior students familiarize themselves with some fundamental analytical concepts and practices of cultural studies.
A1053 English Composition III (2/2) This course emphasizes the writing of argumentative essays. It requires as much attention and efforts to be spent on syntactic structure as on the way of thinking itself, i.e. the proposition of a concept, the elaboration of its significance to certain claims, and the logical approach toward a conclusion.
A1085 Selections from English Drama (2/2) This course is designed to help students read some plays by some well-known dramatists in British, American, and European literature. Readings are selected at the discretion and interest of the faculty instructor.
A1152 Introduction to Western Literary Criticism (2/2) This course serves two purposes: (1) to impart a familiarity with the history of Western literary criticism; (2) to cultivate the virtus of an active performance of critical theories--so students will be obliged to apply these strategies to literary texts.
A1312 Cinema and Literature (0/2) The dual focus of this course will be placed on an analysis on the formations of both narrativity and sexuality as they are structured and represented in the dominant cinema. Course requirements include film screenings, heavy theoretical readings, in-class group discussion, and final presentation.
A1617 English Prose (2/2) Selected readings in English short stories and essays on contemporary issues to reinforce students' reading comprehension and offer lively prose models for models for grammatical and structural analysis and for appreciation of syntactical beauty and rhetoric strategies.
A1854 English Pronunciation (2/2) This course provides an overview of the features of English pronunciation, helps students understand the relationship between words and pronunciation, practices such phonetic phenomena in connected speech as liaison and assimilation, and introduces the differences between American and British English pronunciation.
A6537 English Phonetics (0/2) Pronunciation practice in Standard American English; transcription exercises in IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet); contrastive analysis of other phonologies; design of phonetic tools for TESOL use.
F0101 English Oral Presentation (2/2) This course is to help students speak fluent English. It emphasizes students' speaking ability by conducting small group discussions of topics. Activities of pair work and role-plays give students opportunities to practice speaking English.
F0127 Selected Readings in Ecoliterature (2/0) This course helps students acquire a basic knowledge of nature writing as a genre, its relation to ecology and its relevance to the solution of ecological crisis. It is also designed to raise students' consciousness of ecocriticism while improving students' skill of reading through a perusal of ecological prose, poetry and fiction.
F0252 Syntax (2/2) This course covers major issues in English syntax from the viewpoint of generative grammar founded by Noam Chomsky. The course is primarily organized around lectures and in-class discussion. Grades are based on a combination of examinations, and class attendance.
F0298 Shakespeare in Films (2/2) This course considers screen adaptations of William Shakespeare's dramas rather than focuses on reading the plays, aiming to explore the issues of cultural studies such as nationalism and sexuality through film representation. Different versions of films will be provided for discussing each play, through which to learn various approaches upon Shakespeare's plays.
Master's Program
FLA0477 American Renaissance (3) This course treats the "Flowering of New England," focusing on authors Matthiessen studied in his magisterial American Renaissance. Special attention will be paid to the double appropriation of nature and of tradition in these writers' attempt to construct an American literary/cultural self.
FLA1279 Introduction to Research Methods and Writing(3) This courses provides students with basic knowledge on writing mechanisms of research paper, useful skills of gathering reference materials, and critical approaches to literary/cultural study (including psychoanalysis, deconstruction, New Historicism, feminism, and post-colonialism).
FLA2132 Theory and Criticism (3) The goal of this seminar is to equip the M.A. students with a basic, solid grasp of the key concepts revolving around the subject of literary theory and criticism since Plato. These concepts may be summarized as follows: reality, subjectivity, author, reader, text, structure, context (world, genre, gender, class, etc.).
FLA2135 English Writing II (2) This course is intended to prepare students to write for a variety of occasions and audiences, with emphasis on graduate level academic writing. Students will focus on a more advanced level.
FLA2226 English Writing III (1) Introduction; Diagnostic Test on Structure Skills; Developing Structure Skills; The Reading-Writing Connection; Exposition Strategies---Development by Example and Process Analysis; Exposition Strategies---Development by Comparison and Contrast; Exposition Strategies---Development by Definition; Exposition Strategies---Development by Division and Classification; Exposition Strategies---Development by Cause and Effect; Developing Your Argument; Effective Description; Writing Essays Using Multiple Strategies; Writing about Literature; Writing a Paper Using Research.
FLF0258 Contemporary Native American Literature (3) This is a master's-level seminar on contemporary American Indian literature with a focus on contemporary fiction. We will read the most celebrated works by the most influential writers in the field: James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Sherman Alexie. These writers have not only dominated contemporary Native American literature as a field, they have become important figures in American literature as whole.
FLF0260 Twentieth Century Anglo-American Poetry (3) This course reads closely selected English and American poets of the twentieth century. Poets who address the central concerns of the twentieth century---cultural, political aesthetic---will be organized into modules to give the course focus and consistency.
FLF0292 Comparative Rhetoric (3) The main purpose of this course is twofold: to compare classical Greek Chinese rhetorical traditions, and to appropriate specific aspects of those traditions as tools to analyze the discourses of issues relevant to students and teachers of language today.
FLF0314 Reading Films---Asian Cinema (3) This course is designed to introduce students to major developments of film study, by examining a number of national cinemas in the world. This three-hour postgraduate seminar will focuse upon Asian Cinema, a cinema that gathers many talents and provides a variety of approaches to cinema study.
FLF0316 English Renaissance Drama (3) This course focuses on the first golden age of English drama, from the establishment of a professional theatre in London in 1576 to the closing of theatres in 1642, exclusive of Shakespeare. We will concentrate on a few important dramatists of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline periods, including Marlowe, Jonson, and Ford. Major genres such as revenge tragedy and city comedy, and major themes such as temptation, revenge, justice and politics will be examined.
FLF0313 Input in Second Language Acquisition (3) The goal is to develop a coherent framework for understanding the significance of input in SLA and for evaluating the implications for linguistic theory, SLA, and language pedagogy.
FW0160 Comparative Drama (3) Reading and discussion of theater arts in different countries. Comparison will be made chiefly between East and West, and between theater and its allied arts.
FW0609 Cultural Background of Modern Literature (3) This course gives the cultural background of English, American, and Continental literature with emphasis on de Tocqueville, Darwin, Marx, Freud, and Henry Adams.
FW0642 Shakespeare (3) A study of at least one comedy, one history, and one tragedy, as well as selections from Shakespeare's major poems, "Venus and Adonis," "The Rape of Lucrece." Students read several additional plays as out-of-class assignments.
FW1192 Introduction to Comparative Literature (3) This course introduces major concepts, scope, problems, materials, tools and methods in the field, with an emphasis on Asian-Western literary relations.
FW1289 Traditional Epic (3) A close reading and comparative analysis of the epics of Homer and Vigil, and their influence upon Dante and Milton; is included a review of epic theory.
FW1830 Practicum in TESOL (3) This course provides participants with practical experiences to improve the quality of their teaching. The focus will be on teaching techniques, awareness of personal teaching style, lesson-planning skills, ability to select/adapt materials, and other issues related to learners and classroom dynamics.
FW1909 Language and Culture (3) This course helps students understand that to communicate effectively with a native American requires more than just the knowledge of English grammar. It requires that Chinese should be sensitive to the social and cultural aspects of language use and how these differ between the Chinese and English language.
FW2147 Whole Language and EFL Application (3) This course introduces basic concepts and issues of whole language philosophy in language education and literacy development with an emphasis on the EFL context. Students gain an understanding of applying whole language principles in English classrooms of different levels.
FW2134 English Writing I (2) This course is intended to prepare students to write for a variety of occasions and audiences, with emphasis on graduate level academic writing. Students will focus on matching content, argumentation, and style to specific purposes and audiences.
FW2149 Cultural Studies' Critical Pedagogy, Critical Multiculturalism, and Cultural Identity
(3) This course is designed to help students familiarize themselves with some most fundamental critical concepts and practices in the field of Cultural Studies' "radical formation of critique."
FW2158 Language Acquisition (3) Careful investigation of the L2 acquisition will help understand the cognitive processes in specific language learning or the biological endowment for language, namely, Universal Grammar (UG).
FW2216 Humanism and Ecological Thought (3) This course discusses the connotation of Humanism and its ecological meaning in terms of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy which includes the thoughts and ideas of Sartre, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and so on.
FW2235 Psychoanalytic Literary Criticism (3) This course introduces various ways in which psychoanalytic theory can be and has been used to explain artistic creativity, the relationship between author and reader (and author and text, and reader and text), and fictional characters, plots, narratives, and the relationship between a text's style and its content.
FW2239 Film and Genre (3) This seminar begins with an overview of developments in genre theory in the film studies field over the past three decades, then moves on to a more in-depth analysis of a number of current issues and controversies related to genre.
FWA1812 Principles and Methodologies of TESOL (3) This course explores the theoretical foundation as well as practical implication. Issues like first language acquisition, styles and strategies, personality and sociocultural factors, constructive analysis, interlanguage, and error analysis, communicative competence, testing, etc. will be discussed.
FWA2050 Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (3) The course deals only with the Tales, to teach the student to read Chaucer in the original and to get a feeling for his different styles and uses of words. The course also acquaints students with the period and thinking of the time and with the main trends and scholars in Chaucerian criticism.
FW2248 Ecofeminism (3) This course mainly focuses on the following issues: ecology, feminism, film study, looking at the nature outdoors, and so on.
FWA2317 Introduction to Pragmatics (3) This course aims to assist students in exploring the field of pragmatics to understand the relationship of sentences to the environment in which they occur and the relation between signs or linguistic expressions and their users.
FWA2336 Asian Literature (3) This course requires students study a selection of works in Asian literature in comparative perspective. Focuses will be on India, China, Japan, and Taiwan. Works are to be read in English, Chinese, or Japanese.
FWT0085 Research Writing (3) An introduction to the theory and practice of research methods and the discipline of bibliography, read various literary and TESOL works and write research papers on them.
Ph.D. Program
FLA2048 Literature and Language Teaching (3) This course will explore and debate over key theoretical and practical issues of the teaching of literature. Discussions will focus on introduction to fundamental issues, implications of the interaction between linguistics and literature of education, and issues raised by the inclusion of literature in the curriculum.
FLA2132 Literary Criticism I (2) In this course we'll read a cross section of critical texts with a special focus on the concepts of identity, difference, and the Other. Thus the purpose of this course is to impart a familiarity with contemporary literary theories and criticism so that students of literature will not only arm themselves with ideas that have shaped contemporary scene in literary studies, but also can apply them to the reading of literary as well as social texts, especially the work by Toni Morrison.
FLA2133 Literary Criticism II (2) This course is aimed at enlarging and complicating those beginning definitions of ecocriticism with an attempt to envision new ways of framing the interrelationship between humans, nature, and the environment.
FLA2135 Doctoral Research Writing Seminar (3) Students are required to propose a research topic, a bibliography, and a tentative thesis at the beginning of the semester. Weekly assignments include class participation, written summaries of the self-chosen reading materials, and brief oral presentations of the summaries. The goal of the seminar is to help the students acquire effective academic writing through a simulative process which involves planning and execution.
FLF0267 Environmental Literature and Environmental Justice (3) This course will focus on the rapidly growing contemporary literature of environmental justice. In the first few weeks of this course, we will read selections from some established classics of American environmental literature in order to ground ourselves within the larger history of American literary environmentalism and establish a theoretical context. Then we will turn to our major readings in American environmental justice fiction.
FLF0295 Neurolinguistics and Language Acquisition (3) This course will cover different theories of neurolinguistics---how language is represented and processed in the brain, and the relationship between neurolinguistics and language acquisition. Memory and affection are the two main issues in this course. The neurobiological mechanism of memory as well as the biological underpinnings of the role of affect in promoting or inhibiting second language learning will be identified. Related theoretical development such as lateralization and localization of language functions will also be introduced according to different topics.
FLF0312 Post-Gender Controversies (3) This course aims at (1) instead of making the body a biological given or irrelevant, the relationship of the body to the psyche should always be critically addressed; (2) the seemingly inevitable and stable oppositions between male and female sexuality should always be carefully investigated; (3) the hegemonic heteronormative assumptions about the continuities between anatomical sex, social gender, gender identity, sexual identity, sexual object choice, and sexual practice are also to be challenged; and (4) as a political result from the above inferential arguments, alternative sexual modalities other than the imperative heterosexuality should be de-pathologized and opened up as a more liberating terrain for the forthcoming era of transgenderism!
FLF0318 Topics in Ecopoetics (3) This course is structured around four main areas of interest: a) roots of our ecological crisis; b) environmental ethics, including such representative ecological positions as deep ecology, ecofeminism, and social ecology; c) a sampling of nature writing, selected works from Dickinson, Leopold, Snyder, Berry and Dillard, etc.; d) concept of nature, a puzzling but crucial key word. These four areas are not separate, isolated islands, but a connected and unified continent.
FLF0446 Buddhism and Ecology (3) This course aims to introduce students Buddhism as a field of religious ecology. Topics for discussion include: environmental ethics, animal rights, modified anthropocentrism, the pursuit of the big self, cosmological totality, and the cultivation of compassion as a way to raise ecological consciousness. Besides reading various Buddhist scriptures and modern essays on Buddhist response to the environmental ethics, students are required to do a field study of the potential contribution of the monastic community in promoting a green society in contemporary Taiwan.
FLF0478 Ecology and Colonialism (3) This course examines the interrelationship between colonialism and ecology, especially the relationship with the natural world and the personal, social and philosophical dimensions and consequences under colonialism. We will read novels (Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Doris Lessing's The Grass Is Singing and J.M. Coezee's The Life and Times of Michael K.) alongside a number of essays on the representation of the environment, colonialism, neocolonialism, postcolonialism, especially works that connect the role of the land, language and environmental ethics to broader debates about "sense of place," colonialism, ecofeminism and postmodern ecology.
FLF0501 Taoism and Ecology (3) Daoism and ecology are often invoked as natural partners in contemporary discussions of environmental issues. This course will concentrate on the analysis and discussion of the ecological implication of such classical texts as Daode jing, Zhuangzi, Taiping jing, and Huangdi yinfu jing. It will also study contemporary essays on such topics as fengshui, Daoist environmental philosophy, practical ecological concerns in contemporary Daoism, Daoism and Deep Ecology, Nature as Part of Human culture in Daoism.
FW1386 Ecological Poetics II (3) This course begins with a general survey of the emerging field of ecocriticism, examining various positions voiced by deep ecology, ecofeminism, environmental justice, etc. in an attempt to acquaint students with the roots of our ecological crisis. It then proceeds to study in greater depth selected authors and texts of nature writing, mainly of the 19th and 20th centuries.
FW1387 Bakhtin (3) An introduction to the life and writings of one of the most important figures of twentieth-century thought. Emphasis is placed on Baktin's theories of language and culture, and their implications for social and literary analysis.
FW1388 English Graphemics (2) An approach to linguistic interpretation of the graphemic constituents of lexical items in English orthography through an investigation of etymological, morphological and phonological properties of the lexical items.
FW1389 Contemporary Western Cultural Thought (3) This course is a survey that examines the most important intellectual trends in twentieth-century Western thought.
Fw1458 Discourse on Gender (2) An examination of how human sexuality has been discursively regulated in philosophy, arts, contemporary mass media, pornography and cinematic representation.
FW1459 Contrastive Rhetoric (3) An critical examination of the notion that individual languages and their cultures have a determinative effect on discourse at paragraph-level and essay-level.
FW1461 Feminist Literature and Literary Theory (2) A survey of first- and second-wave feminisms. Anglo-American and French feminisms, third-world feminisms, as well as representations of feminism in literatures and culture products.
FW2138 Origins of the Novel (3) This seminar deals with a number of issues surrounding the rise of the novel in the eighteenth century, tracing various conditions that contribute to its formation: the emergence of the middle class, the shift in the image and imaging of woman, and the growing awareness of the novel as a bourgeois culture discourse.
FW2141 Introduction to Sociolinguistics (3) This course provides an overview of the field of sociolinguistics, or the study of language in its social and cultural context, with a focus on issues most relevant to the teaching of English.
FW2153 Luigi Pirandello and Bertolt Brecht (3) This course studies both Pirandello and Brecht's major plays, writers whose visions exemplify the opposite poles of the modernist sensibility. Pirandello, the father of the 'theatre of the absurd', believed that people are fundamentally irrational and developed an ironically surrealist drama.
FW2157 Current Issues and TESOL Journals (3) This course introduces students to current issues and trends in second language education research. Students will be familiarized with journals and reference sources used in the study of second language learning, teaching and research.
FW9052 Second Language Acquisition and Methodology (3) The course emphasizes issues as follows: Theories in SLA, contrastive analysis, error analysis competence and communicative competence,
