NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 學術英文聽讀(0923)
	(Eng.) Academic English：Listening and Reading
Offering Dept	Language Center
Course Type	Required	Credits	2	Teacher	Ching-Yu Yang
Department	General	Language	English	Semester	2026-SPRING
Course Description	This course is designed to develop students’ academic English competence with a primary focus on listening and reading skills, while maintaining integrated practice in speaking and discussion. The course guides students to engage with academic-oriented texts and lectures, helping them identify key ideas, discourse structures, and commonly used academic vocabulary and expressions. Classroom activities will include pre-listening/reading tasks, comprehension checks, group discussion, and short oral responses. The course culminates in a final academic-style presentation, allowing students to synthesize information from listening and reading materials and present it in a structured and coherent manner.
Prerequisites				self-directed learning in the course	Y

Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%)			Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives	Competency Indicators	Ratio(%)	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
By the end of this course, students will be able to: 1. Improve students't English skill. 2. Develop the abilities to communicate in English. 3. Motivate students to learn English on their initiative. 4. Develop academic listening and reading strategies. 5. Integrate listening and reading input into spoken output.			topic Discussion/Production Exercises Discussion Lecturing	Attendance Oral Presentation Assignment Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content Week 1 (2/23) Orientation; Unit 4 Getting it right Week 2 (3/2) Unit 4 Getting it right Week 3 (3/9) Unit 4 Getting it right Week 4 (3/16) Unit 5 Our changing world Week 5 (3/23) Unit 5 Our changing world Week 6 (3/30) Unit 5 Our changing world; submit the oral presentation title Week 7 (4/6) Tomb Sweeping Festival Week 8 (4/13) Midterm Exam Week 9 (4/20) Film appreciation Week 10 (4/27) Posttest Week 11 (5/4) BBC learning English (Will AI take over our jobs?) & oral presentation Week 12 (5/11) BBC learning English (Could you be a victim of online fraud?) & oral presentation Week 13 (5/18) BBC learning English (Why are billionaires building bunkers?) & oral presentation Week 14 (5/25) BBC learning English (Food made in space) & oral presentation Week 15 (6/1) BBC learning English (Are you flourishing?) & oral presentation Week 16 (6/8) Review self-directed learning    02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.    03.Preparing presentations or reports related to industry and academia.
Evaluation
Attendance & In-class Practice 20% Midterm Exam 30% Oral presentation 25% (10 mins for each group; 5 mins for each person; 2 mins Q&A) Q&A 5% Self-directed learning 5% Posttest 15%
Textbook & other References
Liz and John Soars, American Headway, vol. 3 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
BBC six minutes: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/6-minute-english Voice of America; Ted talks iLearning
Office Hours
TBA
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
04.Quality Education   06.Clean Water and Sanitation   07.Affordable and Clean Energy   11.Sustainable Cities and Communities   13.Climate Action   14.Life Below Water   15.Life On Land include experience courses：N

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