Daniel Craig

Classes: Current and Past

This is a growing list of courses that I have taught. It's not everything, but a good representation of what I've been doing the last few years+.

Current Sangmyung University Courses

At this point, all of these courses are run off of a Moodle installation, thus no links. However, some of the classes do have other public-facing online spaces, including Twitter accounts, blogs, and video sharing sites. If you are a current student, you can find our Moodle website at http://www.danielcraig.com/smuenglish.

• Multimedia-Assisted Language Learning
  • MALL is just the preferred name here in Korea. I'm more of a fan of CALL, myself. Anyway, this is an undergraduate CALL course that is a basic survey of available resources for teaching using computers and the Internet. Their is also a smaller, yet significant, focus on creating in addition to consuming content. Some of the coverage includes the use of communication tools (SMS, Twitter, chat, videoconferencing, VoIP, wikis, blogs, Web pages, etc.), presentation tools (PowerPoint, Prezi, VoiceThread, presentation sharing sites, video sharing sites, etc.), social networks (general and language learning specific), traditional media (TV, DVD, CD, etc.) and language learning software (installations, services, and CD/DVDs).
• Classroom English
  • This is teaching methods course focusing on how to teach English using English. Honestly, I haven't figured out the scope of the course yet. It's a little vague and doesn't have a consistent history. It's been taught more from an EFL standpoint in the past, but I was hired to take these classes into more of a teacher education direction.
• Teaching Listening
  • This is a teaching methods course that focuses on listening as a skill that can be taught. Listening is often something that is not really taught, but rather used. Skills training can improve listening, though, and teachers should be aware of how to do this. Techniques for both decoding and meaning-building listening instruction are discussed.
• Advanced & Intermediate English Composition
  • These are straight foreword composition classes. I see these classes working on both academic writing and more informal writing for communication purposes (email, chat/SMS/Twitter, blogs, etc). The classes will use email/personal messaging for one-to-one communications, discussion forums for one-to-many communications, blogs for journaling (self communication), good ol' handwriting and word processors for process writing, and I'm even considering an animation and/or Twitter creative writing project.
• English Writing Logic
  • This is a writing course for English Education majors. The focus is on writing essays on SLA/TESOL topics for the Teacher Certification Exam. This is a blend of basic writing instruction paired with academic writing on theory and practice.

Past Courses

• Seoul National University
  • Public Health Administrators
    • This is a beginner-level English class for members of the Public Health Administrators program in the School of Public Health at SNU.
  • Academic English Writing
    • Focuses on larger pieces of writing. We quickly move through paragraphs and essays and focus more on research writing.
  • Conference Preparation
    • This is a unique course that attempts to tackle 3 important aspects of conference participation: abstract writing, presentation skills, and conversation. The course is primarily dedicated to presentation skills, with writing and conversation used as a ramp-up and ramp-down to the course.
  • English Pronunciation & Listening
    • This is a great dual-focus course that initially separates the pronunciation and listening components, but merges them as the course progresses. The dual focus is meant to reduce fatigue (pronunciation for 7 weeks gets tedious) and to emphasize the interaction of the two skill sets.
  • English Conversation - Level 4
    • This is a conversation course for intermediate/upper-intermediate learners. The course is aimed at increasing fluency through prolonged interactions with both English materials and speakers. The course is loosely organized through a functional syllabus, with nearly half of the course dedicate to discussion of student-derived topics.
• Indiana University
  • Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) - Default course page
    Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (summer II 2006)
    Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) (summer II 2005)
    • The CALL courses were focused on helping pre-service/in-service teachers to integrate technologies into their teaching methods. I see CALL as a part of basic methods, not as a mystical other. I have a personal belief in and focus on adapting existing technologies and resources for use in the language classroom. With the existence of so many resources, why do we need to re-invent the wheel. Therefore, this class focused on finding, evaluating, and repurposing resources for teachers' classroom needs. There was then a secondary focus on developing their own resources and supplementary materials for those times when nothing else will do.
  • ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (fall 2005)
    ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (spring 2006 - ICP)
    ESL/EFL Instruction and Assessment Approaches (spring 2006 - ICCATs)
    • This course focused on basic TESL/SLA theory and assessment. The theory component included popular learning theories and instructional theories (primarily language instruction theory). The assessment component discussed both common and alternative assessments, which a focus on the latter. These courses were primarily for Indiana ESL teachers, so the projects and examples were geared most for them; however, the fall 2005 class was about 50% international students, so the content changed significantly to meet their needs.