1. Research discussions
November 4th 2013

2. Research into the LNG curriculum
Focus on LNG101-LNG107
Prime purpose: To gather information to improve the curriculum
Secondary purpose: To produce research publications
Internal research reports
Conference presentations

4. Real-world tasks What do students really do? What problems are there?
What are the possible solutions?

5. Independent learning What do students choose to do and why? Goals
Confidence and attitude
Language improvement
Supplement to classroom
Approaches
Open (movies, books)
SALC clubs
Normal SALC (esp. CALL)
What do students choose to do and why?

6. Technology Tools What tools do teachers use for what purposes? Edmodo
Facebook
LMS
What tools do teachers use for what purposes?

7. Evaluation
What is really being measured through the evaluation (item/criterion analysis)?
Does the evaluation match the objectives?
What do students think about the evaluation?

8. Teacher initiatives
How do teachers deal with the assigned material to teach (e.g. ignore parts of coursebook, assign parts as homework) and why?
What extra materials do teachers produce or use?
How can these be shared?

9. Teacher beliefs
What do teachers believe are the purposes of the compulsory LNG courses?
What do teachers believe should be the balance of the 3 main components (coursebook, real-world tasks, independent learning)?
What do teachers believe are the purposes of the SALC clubs?