NCHU Course Outline

Course Name	(中) 學術英文聽讀(0934)
	(Eng.) Academic English：Listening and Reading
Offering Dept	Language Center
Course Type	Required	Credits	2	Teacher	CHEN, CHUN-MEI
Department	General	Language	English	Semester	2026-SPRING
Course Description	This course is designed to cultivate the academic listening and reading comprehension skills required for higher education. The course covers intensive reading and extensive reading training, listening exercises, classroom assignments, and oral presentations. Students will engage with materials from diverse academic contexts, acquire English vocabulary and syntactic structures, practice understanding textual organization, and develop professional competencies such as information identification, critical evaluation, problem-solving, and effective communication through interactive contexts.
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
The course is dedicated to establishing essential English listening and reading skills that students will need throughout their university experience. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Read and comprehend academic texts. 2. Process and understand information in English. 3. Cultivate an extensive repertoire of academic terminology. 4. Strengthen analytical reasoning abilities in academic contexts.			topic Discussion/Production Discussion Lecturing	Attendance Oral Presentation Assignment Quiz
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content Week 1 Week 1: Orientation Week 2 Week 2: The Mind/ Ted Talks & Discussion Week 3 Week 3: The Mind/ Ted Talks & Discussion Week 4 Week 4: The Mind / Movies and TV sit-coms Week 5 Week 5: Working / Ted Talks & Discussion Week 6 Week 6: Working/ Ted Talks & Discussion Week 7 Week 7: Make-up Holiday Week 8 Week 8: Midterm Exam Week 9 Week 9: Breakthrough/ Films and TV Sit-Coms Week 10 Week 10: English Proficiency Test (Post-test) Week 11 Week 11: Breakthrough/ Ted Talks & Discussion Week 12 Week 12: Art and Entertainment/ Film and TV Sit-Coms/ Week 13 Week 13: Art and Entertainment/ Ted Talks & Discussion Week 14 Week 14: Conflict and Reconciliation/ Oral presentations Week 15 Week 15: Conflict and Reconciliation / Review Week 16 Week 16: Final Exam self-directed learning    02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.
Evaluation
The grade will be based on midterm and final exams, assignments, oral presentations, and class participation. The percentage of each category will be as follows. Midterm Exam 20% Final Exam 25% Assignments 15% (Mock Exams & Learning Logs: 5%; Oral Presentations: 10%) Quizzes & Class Participation 25% English Proficiency Test (Post-Test) 15%
Textbook & other References
Mosaic 2 Reading, by Wegmann, Brenda & Miki Knezevic. 2013. Sixth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
iLearning3.0 https://lms2020.nchu.edu.tw/
Office Hours
By appointment.
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