UC Graduate Studies Catalog 2019-2023 Section XIII Foreign Language Programs

The recent decades of war and internal conflict have only turned Cambodia into one of the poorest countries in the world, despite an abundance of natural resources. And, in spite of improvements in the human resources sector since 1979, social indicators are still at a low level compared with neighboring countries.

There is thus the need to promote the development and maturation of the latent potential of Cambodia's human resources, through nurturing of the intellectual development of our people. This requires the continued development of an education system which can adapt and use the most appropriate modern pedagogical approaches in order to maximize returns on the investment (monetary and otherwise) made by both the education system and students. In addition, as part of their armamentarium, administrators need to be competent in various other areas associated with the running and improvement of existing and anticipated educational services.

In the School for Foreign Languages, our Department of English Language offers a Master's program in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. The aim of this is to produce teachers who can help Cambodians to enter into, and then compete on, the global marketplace where English is increasingly important as a transnational language.

An important recent development is UC’s involvement in the CONTESSA Project.

The Contemporary Teaching Skills for South Asia (CONTESSA) project is an EU-funded Erasmus+ programme for Capacity Building in Higher Education. It aims to promote learner-centred teaching practice: rather than being a top-down instructor, the teacher should try to be a guide and facilitator for the personal development of individual students. The project is coordinated by the University of Graz in Austria with the Technical University of Dresden in Germany. The University of Cambodia and Paññāsāstra University have been the Cambodian partners in this enterprise and there are two Sri Lankan universities also actively involved.

A series of five modules related to the use of modern teaching techniques in primary education have been designed for blended and distance-learning approaches. The material covers best practices related to E-Education, subject and learner-centred teaching methods, the role of teachers in the educational sphere, diversity in the classroom and other topics crucial to modern-day teaching. It is designed for use both as course material for degree programmes and for Train-the-Trainers Workshops to help trainee and existing teachers to further develop and upgrade their pedagogical skills.

1. TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

This program is designed for professionals with a Bachelor’s degree in English and at least three years’ experience in English Language Teaching (ELT). It aims to build upon a practical foundation in ELT methodology with a strong basis on the theoretical concepts in Teaching English as a Foreign Language; and more general principles of education that will help enhance the participants’ knowledge of the English language and their teaching skills for a more meaningful teaching career.

Applications with a Bachelor’s degree in other fields who have taught English for three years may be accepted, but will be required to take and pass up to three Bridging courses.

(a) The following program structure applies for existing Master’s students, based on a previous MoEYS directive (see Section VIII.3).

Common Courses (12 credits)

FDN501: Research Methodology

FDN502: Statistics for Research

FDN503: Research Paper Writing

FDN504: Ethical Leadership

Major Courses (18 credits)

EFL600: Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

EFL610: Introduction to Linguistics

EFL632: Second Language Acquisition

EFL633: Curriculum Design and Development

EFL634: Language Testing and Assessment

EFL635: Methodology in Language Teaching

Elective Courses (12 credits)

EFL636: Academic Writing for Graduate Studies

EFL640: Language and Culture

EFL642: English for Specific Purposes

EFL645: Technology for Language Teaching and Learning

Option I: Thesis (at least 12 credits)

RPT601-RPT604: Master’s Thesis

Option II: Comprehensive Exam (12 credits)

EFL614: Strategies in Teaching Grammar and Composition

EFL616: Psychology for Language Teaching

EFL647: Language Teaching Practice

CAP601: Capstone (Seminars, etc.)

Ø Master’s Research Paper

Ø Comprehensive Exam

(b) For new Master’s students enrolling in Academic Year 2018-2019, the latest revision by MoEYS means that there are three options available (see Section VIII.7). The following outlines what is required to be satisfactorily completed for the first two of these (all courses are 3 credits each, unless otherwise indicated).

Research Methodology
FDN501: Research Methodology
FDN502: Statistics for Research
FDN503: Research Paper Writing
Major Core Courses
EFL600: Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
EFL610: Introduction to Linguistics
EFL632: Second Language Acquisition
EFL636: Academic Writing for Graduate Studies
Major Courses
EFL633: Curriculum Design and Development
EFL634: Language Testing and Assessment
EFL635: Methodology in Language Teaching
FDN504: Ethical Leadership
Major Elective Courses
EFL640: Language and Culture
EFL642: English for Specific Purposes
EFL645: Technology for Language Teaching and Learning
Option 1 Comprehensive/State Exam	Option 2 Research Project Report
EFL617 (= EAD616): Human Resource Management in Education	RPR601: Research Proposal
EFL637 (= EAD636): Legal and Ethical Issues in Education	RPR602: Paper Presentation
EFL646: Comparative Linguistics	RPR603: Master’s Project Report (6 credits)
EFL648 (= EAD634): Educational Evaluation

For the third option, the Master’s Thesis, candidates are required to do the above two suites of Research Methodology and Major courses. Thereafter, they must earn the remaining 33 credits through successfully completing the following:

THE601: Research Proposal (3 credits)

THE602: Publication of a Paper (6 credits)

THE603: Paper Presentation (3 credits)

THE604: Individual Seminar/Workshop (3 credits)

THE605: Thesis (18 credits)