Rose Ann Dela Cruz MJ Enduria Bernard Paderes TESOL 107 (Language Material Preparation) Ms.

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Lasallian Language Centre is located inside the campus of De La Salle Araneta University in Malabon. The centre used to be fully operated by JABEZ International Language Centre. However, after a year of operating independently from the De La Salle system, it has been partially operated by the university starting last year. Most language centres for Koreans in the Philippines are offering one-on-one tutorial sessions to Koreans of different ages. Instructions are purely supplementary and non-graded. However, LLC collaborates with different Korean colleges and universities from which it gets its clienteles. The target clientele of the centre are undergraduate students enrolled in different programs who are interested in studying English as part of their curricular programs. Therefore, classes that are taking in LLC are graded and credited as part of their program. Students study in the centre for one semester, which is not more than four months. The first semester if from March to June, and the second semester is from September to December. There are also short-term classes in-between. The centre offers courses such as speech, reading comprehension, composition, grammar and even review classes for TOEIC. A semester is divided into two terms. For each term, they are to have four classes: a couple of one-on-one tutorial class, a small group class, and a big group class. Students are assessed on the basis of their weekly, monthly, and summative tests in addition to their monthly TOEIC mock tests.

Textbooks, the primary instructional materials for tutorials classes, used in the centre were primary selected by the assistant director. The choice of materials is also based on the agreement between the students respective university and the assistant director of the centre. However, these days, the teachers are actively involved in developing materials in the light that instructions will not be purely based on textbooks alone. The students are assessed to determine the kind of textbooks that they are going to use. LLC has been operating for no more than 3 years. It is still in the process of development. There are still a lot of changes being made and have to be made especially with its curriculum. Now, the faculty and the administration working together to construct a special curriculum that aims to meet the students needs in the most efficient way.