1.      Activity focus and purpose:

In order to cooperate with the Bilingual 2030 Policy, this course is specially organized to cultivate EMI TAs’ abilities to create friendly all-English environment, enhance the development of teaching professional knowledge and ability growth of EMI courses, and provide EMI teachers with more effective teaching assistance in the classroom so as that EMI TAs serve as a bridge between teachers, students and classmates to improve the teaching quality and effectiveness of EMI courses.

2.      Activity features and implementation:

(1)        Topic: Common Classroom English

(2)        Speaker:

Chen-Yu Hsieh (currently an assistant researcher at the Research Center for Translation,   Compilation and Language Education of Nation Academy for Education Research)

(3)        Language: English

(4)        Pedagogy: Interactive teaching

(5)        Agenda:

(6)        Content:

a.           Basic Principles of Language Use in EMI:

(a)       Enunciation is important.

(b)       Pay attention to your intonation, stress and speech rate.

(c)       Use spoken not written English.

(d)       Use visual aids and body language to support your communication.

b.          Effective Teaching Structure—BOPPPS:

(a)       Bridge-in:

A.        Greetings and informal remarks

B.         Anecdotes and jokes

C.         Lesson reviews

(b)       Objectives/Outcomes:

    Who, will do what, under what condition, how well

(c)       Pre-assessment:

Warm-up activities

(d)       Participatory Learning:

A.        Asking and taking questions

B.         Giving directions

(e)       Post-assessment:

A.        Practice objectives and goals

B.         Directions and guidelines

C.         Monitoring progress

D.        Checking for understanding

(f)        Summary

A.        Review and recap

B.         Assigning Homework

C.         Preview of next class

3.      Activity Highlights

Figure 1: Lecture

Figure 2: Lecture

Figure 3: Teacher-Student Interaction

Figure 4: Student- Student Interaction