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ESP

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION / TASKS

This assignment requires you to complete ONE ESP course.

PART I: COURSE DESIGN (90%)

A. Task descriptions:

1. Design an online English for Specific Purposes course for a specific audience on the
following topic:

English language for professional purposes:

Written communication for hotel front desk personnel

2. Refer to following guidelines to help you develop your online course:

a) How to design an online course booklet -

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pOZKs_FKSTsFQf4COdBMFreE91TnuY9r/view?
usp=sharing

b) Sample course outline – (this link can only be opened with a valid OUM email account.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/19oGkFfV7Vm_zID5-pL0eDoTpZJSh9E8g/view?
usp=sharing

c) Relevant topics from the study guide: 2-7

d) To ensure that you have fulfilled all the requirements of the course, a checklist is
provided in one of the subsequent sections for your reference.

B. Course descriptions:

1. The course participants are:

 a) Employees of a hotel chain. They have either recently been promoted to the front
desk or have recently been hired to work as members of the front desk team.

b) Young Malaysians who generally have an intermediate or a higher level of the English
language proficiency.

c) Supposed to possess one of the following qualifications:

i) Minimum – SPM

ii) Diploma in various fields

2. Course duration:

a) The course is expected to run over five (5) weeks with two (2) classes per week and
each class must be an hour long: 5 x 2 x 1 = 10 learning hours.

b) You will need to provide a lesson plan for each of your classes.

3. Course venue: The course will be run on-site at a facility that will be provided by one of
the hotels in the chain.

4. Course facilitation:

a) You are the main facilitator.

b) You can obtain help from others with instruction.

5. Task specifications:

a) You are free to choose the specific teaching method, approach, or theory that you
wish to use to guide the course you are developing.

b) Describe the teaching method, approach, or theory that you have chosen in your
course design.

c) Provide reasons for choosing the teaching method, approach, or theory.

d) Design your course following the requirements mentioned above. Pay close attention
to the points below when writing out your course outline:

i) The course objectives.

“By the end of this course, the students would be able to …”,
 (1) Greet guests and hold polite conversations with guests.

(2) Obtain the necessary information to process the guests’ stay at the hotel.

(3) Discuss simple problems with guests and offer simple solutions.

(a) Note: more complex problems are generally escalated to the

management.

Your course must be designed to fulfil the objectives stated above.

ii) Assessment statement: Ensure that this is in line with the theory, method, or
approach that you have chosen.

(1) Material choice.

(2) Course description.

[Total: 100 marks]

[See rubrics below for mark distribution]

Submission checklist

To compete this assignment, you must submit your project in ONE MS-Word file. Your
Word file MUST contain the following:

1. Course description. This includes:

a. Stating and justifying your course objective or objectives. This must take
into account,
i. A brief background of your context.
ii. Details of your audience.
[15 marks]
b. Statement of your assessment: Your assessment plan.
[15 marks]
2. The list of material(s). Includes:
a. The description of the selected material(s).
b. Justifications for your selection of the said material(s).
 c. Explanation on how the selected material(s) will be used. You may do
this by placing the descriptions in your lesson plans, indicating to which
lesson plan the respective materials belong.
[10 marks]
3. 10 basic lesson / class plans for each class.
[10 x 5 marks]

Lesson plan template

You are free to tailor the lesson plan template to suit your requirements.
Topic: Group

Week: Class:

Key learning
area:

Lesson
structure:

Time Introduction / Set induction Teaching approach /

strategy

Time Main content Teaching approach /

strategy

Time Conclusion Teaching approach /

strategy
 Resources

Material

Assessment

Reflection

4. Examples of your assessment material (exam paper, assignment paper, quiz

question or other such material that are appropriate and relevant). Be sure to
provide enough examples that will cover your objectives.
5. Do also ensure that all of the items that you submit are coherent and guided by
your objectives.

PART II: ONLINE CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%)

Discuss the following topic(s) in the forum and submit proof of your participation in the online
discussions:

Most industries actually need the same basic communicative requirements. The industry specific
communicative requirements only account for a small part of the totality of their
communicative repertoire.

[Total: 10 marks]

Teaching novel

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION
Note: This assignment has TWO parts.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate the ability to prepare teaching
activities and adapt lesson plans for the teaching of novels and short stories.

PART I : LESSON PLANS AND EXPLANATION (50%)

TASK 1

a) Develop a teaching/learning kit for your target learners using any THREE (3) short
stories from The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway.
The book can be accessed from:
a. https://1drv.ms/b/s!AtehkcT9j003jc1-bO24LWPQxdxY2g?e=6yl2em OR
b. https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-complete-short-stories-of-ernest-
hemingway-d195684714.html

Task Specifications:
1) You are required to teach THREE (3) literary elements from the selected short stories.
Your lesson must include at least ONE interactive activity for each literary element.
2) You must choose a different short story for each literary element. Therefore, you will
have 3 lessons to teach 3 different literary elements with 3 different interactive
activities.
3) Prepare 3 lesson plans complete with learning materials
4) You must provide explanations and rationales for each of the activities chosen.
5) Compile the 3 lesson plans and teaching materials into ONE teaching/learning kit. You
may present the kit in one of the following ways:
▪ in a booklet form;
▪ in MS PowerPoint with supporting materials;
▪ any other presentation you deem effective and attractive.
Note: i) Please save your teaching/learning kit as .pdf or .doc file.
ii) Append the learning materials, games, notes in the Appendix section of your
teaching/learning kit.

(40 marks)

TASK 2

As a literature teacher, you are always looking for new and unique ways for your learners to
express their feelings about a story/poem they have read. You like them to be as creative as
possible when talking or writing about their opinions and reactions.

By applying critical thinking skills, explain the relationship between the reader, the text, and the
teacher in about 250 words (Refer to Topic 2).

(10 marks)

PART II : ONLINE CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%)

Discuss the following topics in the forum and submit the proof of your participation in the
online discussions:

1. Discuss how teachers can explore the language of literature with Malaysian students.

2. Share how teachers can encourage different personalities of students to continue

contributing to a literature discussion.

(10 marks)
 [TOTAL: 60 MARKS

ASSIGNMENT QUESTION

Note: This assignment has TWO parts.

PURPOSE
The purpose of this assignment is for students to demonstrate the ability to discuss the
different elements of novels and short stories.

PART I : CRITICAL REFLECTION ESSAY AND DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY (50%)

TASK 1 – CRITICAL REFLECTION ESSAY

1. Read the novel by Charles Dickens entitled ‘Great Expectations’.

The novel can be accessed using one of the following links:
Link 1 (read online):
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1400/1400-h/1400-h.htm

Link 2 (download free e-book):

https://manybooks.net/titles/dickenscetext98grexp10a.html

Would you recommend the novel to the English language department of your school?
Based on the reflection practices that you have done in the HBET4303 module, write a
critical reflection, with rationales, on whether this novel is recommended or
otherwise. You may use the following questions to guide you in writing your reflection.

● Is the title interesting?

● How popular is the author of the novel? How do you term ‘popular’?
 ● How much do you know about the author’s background?
● How readable is the novel, especially upon considering the background of
yourlearners?
● How much do you like the genre of the novel (e.g., historical, horror, serious
fiction, satire, etc.)?
● How much would your students like it? All of them?
● How much would your learners learn from the novel? (e.g., linguistically, morally,
etc.)?
● How would you introduce language items in the novel? What kind of activities,
do you think, would be beneficial for the students to understand the novel and
also the grammar items?

(25 marks)

Task 2: DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY

For Task 2, you are required to write a 1500-word descriptive essay to discuss how characters
are presented in Flannery O’ Connor’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/goodman.html

In your answer, you are required to:

(a) Elaborate on the types of characters in the above short story by finding similarities or
differences in the characterisation.

(b) Discuss how these characters evoke the emotional response of the reader (for example:
sympathy, anger, disgust, etc.). You must provide one example for each character, and
give reason(s) for your answers.
 (25 marks)
[Total: 50 marks]

PART II : ONLINE CLASS PARTICIPATION (10%)

Discuss the following topics in the forum and submit the proof of your participation in the
online discussions:

1. Discuss how the teaching and learning of short stories and novels can be made more
interactive and fun in Malaysian ESL classrooms.

2. Explain how you can teach your students to ‘contextualise’ (put in perspective where
something occurs and what sense to make of this occurring there and then) excerpts of
novels or short stories.

(10 marks)

[TOTAL: 60 Marks