NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 大一英文(0936)
(Eng.) Freshman English
Offering Dept Language Center
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher CHEN, CHUN-MEI
Department General Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description The course enhances college students' English proficiency and communicative competence through intensive and extensive readings, listening exercises, in-class tasks, oral presentations, and writing assignments. Students are encouraged to discover problems, collect relevant information, and express their ideas in 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 purpose of this course is to help non-major freshmen apply their existing knowledge and competencies across a broad spectrum of situations and improve their language skills for more efficient communication.
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Oral Presentation
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Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 The course covers different themes from a wide range of genres, such as newspaper and magazine articles, online discussion, interviews, book excerpts, news broadcasting, TV Sit-Com, English lyrics, and films. In-class activities include lectures, group discussion, opinion sharing, and students’ presentations.

Week 1: Orientation
Week 2 Week 2: Language and Learning / VOA / ICRT EZ News
Week 3 Week 3: Language and Learning / Small Talk / ICRT EZ News
Week 4 Week 4: Language and Learning / VOA / English Lyrics (1)
Week 5 Week 5: Danger and Daring / Successful Businesses / VOA
Week 6 Week 6: Danger and Daring / VOA / English Lyrics (2)
Week 7 Week 7: Danger and Daring / ICRT EZ news / VOA
Week 8 Week 8: Danger and Daring / Character Traits / VOA
Week 9 Week 9: Midterm Exam
Week 10 Week 10: Gender and Relationship / Film and TV Sit-Coms
Week 11 Week 11: Gender and Relationship / ICRT News / VOA
Week 12 Week 12: Beauty and Aesthetics / Friendship/ Cities
Week 13 Week 13: Beauty and Aesthetics / ICRT EZ news/ VOA/ Oral Presentations
Week 14 Week 14: Beauty and Aesthetics / English Lyrics (3) / VOA / Oral Presentations
Week 15 Week 15: Transitions / English Lyrics (5)/ Oral Presentations
Week 16 Week 16: Transitions /ICRT EZ news/ VOA
Week 17 Week 17: Final Exam
Week 18 Week 18: Self-directed learning: Presentation Practices and Review
Evaluation
The grade will be based on midterm and final exams, quizzes, assignments, and class participation. The percentage of each category will be as follows.

Midterm Exam 20%
Final Exam 30%
Quizzes 20%
Oral Presentations and Assignments 15%
Pretest 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.
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
include experience courses:N
Please respect the intellectual property rights and use the materials legally.Please repsect gender equality.
Update Date, year/month/day:2024/06/26 15:31:27 Printed Date, year/month/day:2024 / 10 / 11
The second-hand book website:http://www.myub.com.tw/