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By the end of the course, the students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of American Culture by completing language-skill related tasks and exams.

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By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1) demonstrate their knowledge of American culture by writing a 5-page research paper of a given topic with 80% accuracy according to a grading rubric.
2) talk about American culture by doing a 10-minute in class presentation using proper grammar with 80% accuracy according to the grading rubric.

3) demonstrate their knowledge of terminology associated with American culture in 60 minutes in-class written exam with 80% accuracy according to the answer key.

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- Diverse group of university level students
-  Integrated-skills, Task-based, and Content-based
-Relevant American Culture Topics
- Developing Technology Skills
-Intermediate English proficiency

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Music Genres in America
Goal:  students will be able to understand music genres in America.
Objectives: students will be able to understand music genre in America by doing research and making a timeline with 80% accuracy.
Pre-task: discussion of your and your partner's favorite music genres / genre-guessing
During-task: do a research of one music genre of your choice, then make a timeline.
Post-task:  present your timeline/ discuss what students have learned

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A Next Generation Continuum Evaluation System
(Formative Summative)

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Observation Check List (Faculty Peer Feedback)

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Observation Check List (Faculty Peer Feedback)

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Phone Manner
Goal: Students will understand procedures and etiquette with phone conversations.

Objectives: students will be able to demonstrate their ability to use English by making mock 30 seconds to 1 minute phone conversation & leaving a 30 second voicemail to their teachers' office phone.
Pre-task:
- vocabulary- introducing: voicemail, sign off, greeting.
- phone etiquettes
- Outlines of phone conversation
Task:
work in pairs
1. use What's App to make phone calls about making plans to see a movie/ both of them need to write down their movie plan.
2. write out a voice message to your teacher for an excuse of absence because you are sick
Post-task:
Students talk about what they have learned in the phone conversation/ what they did well/ what didn't work.

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- Favorite English skills
- needs in learning
-  learning preference
- topic preferences
- difficulties

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1.   What do you think are the most important skills? Why?

2.  What are the challenges you might face in improving each skill?

3.What content are you expected to learn in this course? Why?

4. Are you familiar with learning English using technology?
5.What kind of learning environment and activity are beneficial to you? Why?
6. How do you feel about learning English by doing a task?