The Office of Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages and ESL is responsible for teaching and learning management in foreign languages and ESL categorized as general education courses. These language courses cover languages of ASEAN countries: Burmese, Lao, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Bahasa Malayu; and other languages: English, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.
Teaching and learning management in these language courses deal with practices in four skills with emphasis on productive skills in speaking and writing. Performance-based assessment is required at the end of each course to ensure that learners be able to communicate their intended meanings in the real language context with functional accuracy and fluency.
LANGUAGE COURSES:
| 902-108 English 1 |
| Development of basic English communication skills including listening, speaking, reading, and writing; practice in listening to short phrases and sentences; basic conversation in everyday life; proper pronunciation according to phonetic rules; learning enhanced with standard computer software for development of basic conversation and handling of basic interactions. |
| 902-109 English 2 |
| Further development of English communication skills covering listening, speaking, reading, and writing at the intermediate level; cultural action of native speakers; intermediate level grammar; learning enhanced with standard software that develops necessary skills in sharing ideas, voicing opinion, expressing feeling, and speaking in everyday life. |
| 902-110 English 3 |
| Further development of speaking skills in various situations; making complex dialogue; expressing opinion; proper communication in tourism-related contexts within native culture; practice in English language skills through standard software by discussing topics related to entertainment, culture, government, and the market place. |
| 902-111 English 4 |
| Acquisition of more advanced English communication skills including listening, speaking, reading and writing; practice in listening, conversation, debating, article reading, making summary or conclusion; English idioms; writing for specific purposes and presentation. |
| 902-112 English Composition 1 |
| Further development of effective writing abilities through textual, visual, and electronically-mediated literacies; application of analytical/critical-thinking and problem-solving skills to evaluation of materials and data in composing writing pieces; learning to embrace the concept of intellectual integrity. |
| 902-113 English Composition 2 |
| Further development of effective writing abilities through complex demands of textual, visual, and electronically-mediated literacies; further develop and apply higher order critical thinking as well as reflective thinking skills and problem-solving skills in evaluating materials and ideas; combining, reasoning, and synthesizing ideas and information in writing pieces while demonstrating intellectual integrity. |
| 902-114 Business English for Executives |
| Further development of English communication skills for business and social activity purposes; information giving; making enquiry; presentation of products, services, or ideas; conversing in complex situations with appropriate social manners. |
| 902-115 Reading and Writing Project in English |
| Characteristics and structure of work project; information search and processing; presentation material development; progress report; English reading and writing skills for full understanding to implement project; creating own project. |
| 902-116 Business English for Careers |
| Development of English communication skills for occupational purposes; salutation; making appointment; conversing on telephone; delivering services; buying and selling products and services, demonstrating products; reading product instruction and business correspondence; reading graphs, figures, tables, and diagram; writing and making sense of electronic message. |
| 902-117 English for Hospitality |
| Development of English communication skills in the hospitality industry context; welcoming and receiving guests; organizing functions; activity demonstration, traveling; giving information about venue and facilities; reading and writing signs, symbols and hospitality business correspondence; practice in reading graphs, figures, tables, and diagrams in hospitality work; handling complaints; communication through social media. |
| 902-118 English for Cookery Context |
| Development of English communication skills in the commercial cookery context; utilization of equipment; ingredients; explanation of selection, preparation, and cooking; making senses of food labels, recipes; reading graphs, figures, tables, and diagrams related to kitchen work, kitchen hygiene, and nutrition; writing and reading business correspondence and other business documents. |
| 902-119 Basic Chinese |
| Acquisition of basic Chinese language skills including phonetics, and symbols of sound in Chinese according to the conventional standard used in China; Chinese grammatical structure; basic writing and reading about Chinese culture. |
| 902-120 Fundamental Chinese Listening and Speaking |
| Development of fundamental listening and speaking skills necessary to basically converse in Chinese in everyday life situations; word choice and intonation appropriate for situations and emotions; fluently and correctly engaged in simple dialogue. |
| 902-121 Basic Japanese |
| Japanese alphabets in Hiragana and Katana types; basic vocabulary, salutations in everyday life; numbers, practice on constructing simple sentences. |
| 902-122 Fundamental Japanese Listening and Speaking |
| Development of listening and speaking skills necessary to basically converse in Japanese in everyday life situations; adding relevant vocabulary to expand the scope of conversations. |
| 902-123 Basic Bahasa Malayu |
| Phonetics and basic grammatical structure in Bahasa Malayu; simple vocabulary; develop fundamental communication skills in simple everyday life situations. |
| 902-124 Bahasa Malayu for Communication |
| Development of communication skills in Bahasa Malayu using more complexed grammatical structure; constructing sentences for appropriate communication in Bahasa Malayu. |
| 902-125 Arabic I |
| Alphabets; word composition; pronunciation; simple vocabulary; word order, simple grammatical structure; greeting and conversation in simple situations. |
| 902-126 Arabic II |
| Expansion of vocabulary scope focusing on words frequently used in everyday life; conversation; more complex sentences in different situations. |
| 902-127 Korean 1 |
| Alphabets; pronunciation; basic greeting in everyday life; basic Korean grammatical structure; simple conversation. |
| 902-128 Korean 2 |
| Simple sentence structure; sentence composition; intermediate level Korean grammar; communication in Korean in everyday life and in business organizations. |
| 902-129 Russian 1 |
| Basic Russian grammatical structure, phonetics, communication skills; greeting and basic conversation in simple situations. |
| 902-130 Russian 2 |
| Development of Russian communication skills at the intermediate level for everyday life situations and in business organizations. |
| 902-131 Lao 1 | ||
| Basic Lao grammatical structure, phonetics, communication skills; greeting and basic conversation in simple situations. | ||
| 902-132 Lao 2 |
| Development of Lao communication skills at the intermediate level for everyday life and travel contexts. |
| 902-133 Burmese 1 |
| Basic Burmese grammatical structure, phonetics, orthography, communication skills; greeting and basic conversation in simple situations. |
| 902-134 Burmese 2 |
| Phonology, word formation and syntax of Burmese language; topic specific vocabulary; intermediate level selected readings. |
| 902-135 Cambodian 1 |
| Basic Cambodian grammatical structure, phonetics, communication skills; greeting and basic conversation in simple situations. |
| 902-136 Cambodian 2 |
| Development of Cambodian communication skills at the intermediate level; expand vocabulary scope focusing on words and expressions frequently used in Cambodian cultural way of life. |
| 902-137 Vietnamese 1 |
| Basic Vietnamese grammatical structure, phonetics, communication skills; greeting and basic conversation in simple situations. |
| 902-138 Vietnamese 2 |
| Development of Vietnamese communication skills at the intermediate level for everyday life situations and in business organizations. |