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It is to develop student teachers’ understanding and skills of how to design an English lesson as well as their related positive attitudes by utilizing human and non-human resources. This course is therefore both theoretical and practical. 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 lesson, especially TBI, TBL, and PjBL. The practical component includes skills in analyzing the target instructional situation, collecting and analyzing data on the target students’ characteristics, 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, students are required to attend classes actively (lectures, workshops, discussions), sit a semester test, and complete the following assignments: (a) carrying out a small group project of producing e-media kit necessary for effective EFL instruction; and (b) individually developing a lesson plan for communicative EFL teaching, emphasizing on the production of both oral and written texts, together with a unit of EFL teaching-learning tasks (due before semester exam).