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Domains of Curricular Content for English Language Teacher Education Programs in Taiwan 
Hsi-nan Yeh
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

To evaluate a teacher education program, an essential step is to look into the curriculum for its framework and constituents. Jack Richards (1998) proposed six domains of content as constituting the core knowledge base of second language teacher education (SLTE@-theories of teaching, teaching skills, communication skills, subject matter knowledge, pedagogical reasoning and decision making, and contextual knowledge. This study is to examine the curricula of three major SLTE programs in Taiwan, which supply more than 90% percent of English teachers in local secondary schools, within Richards' framework. The purpose is two-folded. The first is to identify the curriculum design patterns of SLTE programs in Taiwan. The second is to locate the discrepancies between planned and implemented curricula through a questionnaire administered to senior students in the programs. 



His-nan Yeh holds a Ph.D. degree in curriculum and instrustion from the University of Texas at Austin.  He is currently teaching ESL Teaching Methods and Materials, Teaching Practicuum, and several other courses in the Department of English.  Dr. Yeh's research interests focus on ESL program evaluation, testing, and ESL teacher education.