Map of the Portfolio

This blog records my professional development process as a language teacher, a language learner, and a language lover. As a guild for you to locate what you might be interested in easily, this Map will introduce the contents and the categories in this blog. 

To enjoy your exploration of this blog, please click the following link for more interactive guiding:

Map of the E-Protfolio 

After you go into the Prezi, click the gray arrow à to “animate” the Prezi

       To locate a particular entry, please follow the folloiwng lable. 

About Me: Self-introduction (my CV included) and my developing teaching philosophy

Professional development in Penn State MA-TESL program (MA-TESL): The courses I have taken and documents made for these courses

MA-TESL

APLNG 482 Introduction of Applied Linguistics APLNG 484 Discourse Functional Grammar APLNG 491 Second Language Acquisition APLNG 583 Methods of Language Assessment APLNG 595 Internship (ESL015) APLNG 412 Teaching Second Language Writing APLNG 493 Teaching English as Second Language APLNG 581 Discourse Analysis APLNG 587 Theory & Research in L2 Teacher Education APLNG 589 Technology in FL/SL Education APLNG 597A Meaning in L2 Learning

Professional development in TESOL-Ecuador program (TESOL-Ecuador): Internship and learning in Ecuador

TESOL-Ecuador

WL ED 444 Language, culture, and the Classroom WL ED 483 Evaluating Schools’ Performance & ESL Programs WL ED 400 Foundations of Second Language Teaching

My Teaching: My experiences of teaching ESL015 and shelter English in Ecuador
My Research: An archive for the research I did in the above classes 

Meanwhile, this blog demonstrates the MA-TESL program objectives as the follow list. For each entry there will be a label indicating the meeting objective(s):       

Objectives of MA-TESL program (Form PSU, the Department of Applied Linguistics):

1. the ability to design and evaluate instructional materials, technology, media, and other resources that meet the specific instructional and language related needs and abilities of students;
2. the ability to reflect on, critically analyze, and evaluate your own teaching practices;
3. the ability to articulate a philosophy of language teaching grounded in current language and learning theories;
4. an understanding of the complex social, cultural, political, and institutional factors that affect language teaching and students' language learning;
5. knowledge of research and research methods for studying language teaching and learning;
6. knowledge of the teaching field (English);
7. participation in collaborative projects with others.