NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 大一英文(0911)
(Eng.) Freshman English
Offering Dept Language Center
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher CHEN LI HENG
Department General Language 中/英文 Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description Freshman English is a one-year course of 4 credits, 2 credits for each semester. The course features four-skill components and the contents will include listening and oral communication practice, DVD/clip/video viewing, reading and discuss English articles, and some writing practice such as outlining, summarizing, and paraphrasing practice, etc. Exposed to a wide range of listening, speaking, reading, and writing situations, and through in-class discussions and group activities, students can accumulate the amount of vocabulary, enhance their English aural-oral and literacy skills, and cultivate their intercultural knowledge, etc
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 main objectives of this course is to help the non-English majors, the freshmen(the first-year undergraduate students), to improve their English communicative competence.
Upon completion of the course, students are expected to acquire:
(1) the ability to guess meanings of unfamiliar words from contexts;
(2) the ability to understand main ideas in everyday conversations, short talks, and articles;
(3)the ability to read and think critically
(4)the ability to understand English spoken in a range of academic, professional, and social settings;
(5) the ability to briefly express their own ideas, opinions, and to give short explanations in English; and
(6) some test-taking strategies of English proficiency tests.
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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Week 1(02.20): Class Orientation+ Find Your Group Members+ Select your Seat +Group Activity 01:Read One Poem with Your Group Members
Week 2 Week 2(02.27): Unit 04: Trends
Week 3 Week 3(03.05): Unit 04: Trends
Week 4 Week 4(03.12): Unit 04: Trends (Group Activity 02)
Week 5 Week 5(03.19): Unit 05: Success
Week 6 Week 5(03.26): Unit 05: Success
Week 7 Week 7(04.02): Adjusted/Make-up Holiday! (No Class!)
Week 8 Week 8(04.09): Mid-term: Written Test (Listening & Reading)
Week 9 Week 9(04.16): Mid-Term: Oral Test!
Week 10 Week 10(04.23): Post-Test
Week 11 Week 11(04.30): Check Test Paper & Movie Appreciation
Week 12 Week 12(05.07): Movie Discussion+ Group Activity 03
Week 13 Week 13(05.14): Unit 06:Pressure
Week 14 Week 14(05.21): Unit 06:Pressure
Week 15 Week 15(05.28): Group Presentations-01
Week 16 Week 15(06.04): Group Presentations-02
Week 17 Week 17(06.11): Final Exam: Written Test (Listening & Reading)
Week 18 Week 18(06.18): Self-Study Week (No Class!)
Evaluation
1.Class Performance (including attendance, participation, and preparation): 20％
(曠課一次扣4分(一節課扣2分)，曠課滿4次，出席成績0分計，請假一節扣1分(一次扣2分)，並不得超過4次。遲到逾15分鐘，視為曠課。)
a. 4 points will be deducted for each absence, and students cannot be absent for the class more than four times, or they will get “0” from their class performance.
b. If students have to ask for a leave, they are supposed to inform the teacher that they cannot attend the class via email (writing down their student id number and name), by asking their classmates to tell the teacher, or by telling the teacher in person in the following week.
2. Mid-Term: 25% (Written Test:10%+Oral Test:15%
3. Group Discussion & Presentation: In-class Group discussion/Group Presentation: 15 %
4. Final Exam: (Written Exam)15%
5. Freshman English Post-Test: 15%
6. Outside Learning/Self Study: 10%

※Group Oral Presentation:
Students are supposed to work with their group members to deliver an English oral presentation on the topics that the teacher assigns from the textbook or any topic their groups are interested in. They have to make a power-point file to deliver that presentation and upload their power-point file onto iLearning 3.0 before their presentations. The presentation will be about 10 minutes and be delivered in English. The other groups have to raise some questions to the presentation groups, and the presentation group is responsible for answering the questions.

※In-Class Discussion:
Students are asked to work with their group members to do some in-class activities, or discussions about each topic and articles in class.

※Oral Test:
Students are supposed to have oral test for their mid-term.
There are three ways for them to choose from.
a. They can sing an English song.
b. They can have a conversation with their partner by heart.
c. They can read out loud the short passage that the teacher assigns from the textbook.

※Outside Learning/Self Study: (At least 4 Pieces)
Students are encouraged to cultivate their reading habit, train their critical reading ability, and continue their learning outside the classroom.
They are encouraged to find some reading articles they are really interested in and take notes of their reading.
They also can find some listening materials like English songs, TED Talk, or news, etc. they like and take notes of some important ideas.
Textbook & other References
Rogers, Louis. Skillful 2: Reading and Writing. London: Macmillan Education 2018. (ISBN:978-1-380-01064-3) 文鶴代理 (It’s available in the Cave Bookstore.)
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Some references or related discussion questions will be uploaded onto iLearning before the class, so students are supposed to download them and preview them before the class.
Office Hours
By Appointment or Class Hours (13:10-17:00 Tuesdays)
chenliheng@email.nchu.edu.tw
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
04.Quality Educationinclude experience courses：N
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Update Date, year/month/day：None Printed Date, year/month/day：2025 / 1 / 22
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