FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA

Course Syllabus
Faculty Study Program : Education and Teacher Training : English Teaching

Subject/Code/Credits/Semester : Seminar on Language Teaching ( Research Proposal Seminar) (12152101) Description : This course aims at supporting students competence to communicate up-to-date ideas and issues concerning to the Englsih Language Teaching (ELT). In this mini seminar, the students are subjected to individually write and present a proposal on ELT. It is directed to advance and broaden the students views on English language teaching as well as guide them to convey their ideas, opinion, concepts, and initiative scientifically. In addition, it supports students who are writing their thesis on English language teaching by providing them with important feed back from their peers, which will broaden their view on some current issues on English teaching research. As the seminar is held totality in English, it will also upgrade their English skills, especially speaking and writing. Students are exprected to be able to communicate their ideas and concepts concerning to fresh issues on English teaching researches and to defend their arguments rationally and democratically in a seminar presentation. : Parlindungan Pardede

Competency Standard

Lecturer

Course Requirements: 1. Prerequisite subjects: a. Research Methodology b. Statistics for Language Studies c. Research in ELT

2. Attendance: Not less than 80% attendance is required in this course. 3. Grading components: Participation is 25% of the overall grade for this course. This includes being in classes on time with all the necessary materials, completing the individual proposal on time, presenting the proposal on the agreed schedule, participating in discussions carried out in class or blog, and evaluating peers idea in class seminars, The rest 75% of the overall grade goes to the quality of the proposal and its presentation. 4. Grading Scale: 100-80 A; 79.9-75 A-; 74.9-70.0 B+; 69.9-65 B; 64.9-60 B-; 59.9-55 C; 50-54.9 C-; 45-49.9 D; below 45 E.

5. References: Major References Hinkel, E. (ed.) (2005). Handbook of research on second language teaching and learning. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc Lodico, M.G. Spaulding, D.T., & Voegtle, K.H. Methods in educational research: From theory to practice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Pardede, Parlindungan. (2011). Guidelines for writing research proposal. Retrieved from http://parlindunganpardede.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/guidelines-for-writing-research-proposal/

Recommended Texts for Personal Enrichment

Ary, D. Jacobs, L.C., & Sorensen C.K. (2010). Introduction to Research in Education (8th ed.). Belmont: Cengage Learning Burns. A. (2010). Doing action research in english language teaching: A guide for practitioners. New York: Routledge. McKay, S. L. (2006). Researching second language classrooms. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers Wallwork, A. (2010). English for presentations at international conferences. New York: Springer The Web-Address of the Class blog: http://parlindunganpardede.wordpress.com/category/seminar-on-elt/

Lesson Plan NO 1 2 Basic Competencies Indicators SESSOURCES & SION MEDIA Introduction to the Areas 1 Hinkel (2005). of ELT Research pp. 1-174 TOPICS/ SUB-TOPICS Review of ELT Research Methods 2 Hinkel (2005). pp. 177-256 REMARKS

Broadening students view on Students are able to the Areas of ELT Research explain the the Areas of ELT Research Broadening students view on Students are able to Methods in ELT Research explain the areas of ELT research

Submission of Proposal Title & Arranging the Proposal Presentation Schedule

Broadening students view on Students are able to Methods in ELT Research explain the reasons for writing, major sections of a research proposal Developing students skills to students are able to: compose a research proposal compose a research proposal with appropriate contents, lay out, mechanics, and referencing styles Developing the studentss Students are able to: competence to communicate, 1. use their oral skills to argue, reason, analyze, and communicate their ideas, defend their arguments, arguments, reasons, concepts, opinion, and belief concepts, opinions, and

The Research Proposal: Why Write a Research Proposal? Anatomy of a Research Proposal Guidelines for Writing Research Proposal

Lodico, Spaulding & Voegtle (2006) pp. 49-64 Pardede (2011) Students Research Proposal Drafts

Seminar Presentation

5-14

Students research proposals

Each student has 15 minutes for presentation and 15

in formal and democratic communiation.

belief in formal communication 2. defend their ideas, arguments, reasons, concepts, opinions, and belief in formal communication 3. analyse and evaluate other persons ideas, arguments, reasons, concepts, opinions

minutes for discussion