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English Instructional Technology aims to develop student teachers’ understanding and skills of how to design an English instruction as well as their related positive attitudes by utilizing human and non-human resources. This course is therefore both theoretical and practical. The theoretical and conceptual components comprise essential theories and concepts that influence teachers’ pedagogical reasoning in shaping the direction of their instructional design and practice. The theoretical components consist of knowledge of EFL curriculum demands, layers of EFL learning environments and their possible contributions, basic concepts of teaching and learning as communication processes in the existing layers of contexts, principles of interactive language pedagogy, learner characteristics, technology for EFL instruction, classroom management, and designing an EFL instruction. The practical components include skills in analyzing the target instructional situation, collecting and analyzing data on the target students’ entry behavior, designing and planning an EFL lesson in reference to the existing school curriculum, creating EFL teaching media, and carrying out a mini peer teaching through a simulation. The student teachers’ attitudes are developed by involving them in analyzing the possible contribution made by teachers in reaching the goal of education. To help develop these competencies, student teachers are required to attend classes actively (lectures, presentations, workshops, and discussions), sit a semester test, and complete the assignments.