A Proposal for Goal-setting and Teaching Materials for Remedial English Education

(A CEFR-based Approach)

Abstract

This paper proposes a new approach to remedial university English courses for high school students. These courses are offered for a period of up to four or five months from the time of admission in the fall of the third year in high school until actual enrollment in April. The present study shows that such courses can be more effective by (i) introducing more concrete goals on the basis of the CEFR, and (ii) adopting teaching materials more appropriate for university education. It also shows how to develop teaching materials for reading in terms of textual and linguistic properties.