NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 英語口語訓練(一)(1060)
(Eng.) English Oral Training (I)
Offering Dept Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Required Credits 2 Teacher 邱幸珍
Department Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures/Undergraduate Language English Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description Self-expression is to know how you generate your ideas and plan your thoughts well. Through some issues offered in the textbook, to train students to have a deep-thinking and to know the ways how you express yourself properly will be targeted in this course. The configuration of individual, pair or group works will be appropriate for each student to get more interactions among classmates. Functional and situational syllabus design will be also applied to this course through some materials.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course N
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1) Get more words and phrases needed in every talk.
2) Help yourself easily express your ideas by listening and reading some dialogue lines.
3) Preview the issues in the textbook, getting more global information that helps you generate ideas.
4) Be full of energy to deeply get involved the conversations in class.
1.Foreign language skills
3.Communication and presentation skills
50
50
topic Discussion/Production
Discussion
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Sep. 12th Class orientation / Group- & Pair- work arrangement / Warm-up activity
Week 2 Sep. 19th U1 Communication Studies—how to express yourself and make it understood
Week 3 Sep. 26th U1 Slang and language change: Listen and explain / Give out your individual opinions
Week 4 Oct. 3rd Task 1 Try to share one slang with your classmates
Week 5 Oct. 10th U2 Child Psychology—About gifted children
Week 6 Oct. 17th U2 What does “gifted children” mean to you?
Week 7 Oct. 24th Task 2 Think of your own innate talents.
Week 8 Oct. 31st Extra Assignment— Halloween / U3 Online techniques
Week 9 Nov. 7th Mid-term: Share your language learning experience with your classmates for 3 minutes.
Week 10 Nov. 14th U3 Community—social networking
Week 11 Nov. 21st Extra Assignment—Thanksgiving Day / U4 Business
Week 12 Nov. 28th U4 Core Business Skills
Week 13 Dec. 5th Task 3 What kinds of core business skills are essential for workplace?
Week 14 Dec. 12th U5 Memory
Week 15 Dec. 19th U5 Association
Week 16 Dec. 26th Task 4 Memory: Images and your memories
Week 17 Jan. 2nd Preparation for the final presentation
Week 18 Jan. 9th Final Exam: You must think of the topic for your oral test. Choose 2 of the five units, combining these 2 as your topic.
Evaluation
Participation 20% // Oral Presentations & tasks & assignments in class 20% // Mid-term & Final presentations 30% // Attendance 30%
P.S. Better not be absent more than 3 times no matter what reasons could be.
Textbook & other References
Beglar, D. & Murray, N. (2017) Contemporary Topics 3—21st Century Skills for Academic Success, Pearson ISBN: 978-0-13-440079-2
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
Thursday 15:10-17:00 By appointment
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
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