課程概述 |
Freshman English 英文
Spring 2009
Monday 10:30-1:00/ Tuesday, 3:30-6:20 RM Pu506
Instructor: 俞燕妮 Janette Custodio Yuvienco
yuyeni@ntu.edu.tw
Course Description/Objectives:
The course introduces ICT-based (Information and Communication Technology) foreign language learning strategies that help students build up their own personal learning framework, a vital element of foreign language learning which allows them to define, manage and self-regulate their learning continuously; thus, equipping them with the core skills of foreign language learning (i.e. awareness of language learning structures, linguistic knowledge, communication skills, proactive attitude).
It aims to provide a foreign language learning experience (constructed through a series of individual and group tasks) which supports students’ personal learning goals and efforts, engaging them in active viewing, speaking and writing, reading and listening of materials about academic and cultural topics of public interest; and consequently, prepare them for active and creative oral and written interaction with others.
Course Pre-requisites:
Students are expected to have a GEPT-intermediate level of language proficiency or its equivalent.
Criteria for Evaluation
(83dc) Videoed-Interview 20%
(83dc) Virtual Touring 20%
(83dc) ICT-based Discussions (2) 20%
(83dc) Symposium on Movie 20%
(83dc) Forum (Final Assessment) 20%
*N. B. Students who submit late homework will automatically receive a failing score. Make-up tests/presentations may ONLY be arranged under unavoidable circumstances.
Course Requirements:
Videoed Interview
In pairs or groups (5-8 students), students role-play and video-record an interview (5-8 mins) with a personality (inventors, scientists, writers) of their choice and present it to class; the discussion session (between 10-15 mins) follows, allowing the audience to pose questions and make comments.audience presents questions and feedback after the presentation, .
ICT-based Discussion
In groups of four, students engage in ICT-based discussions as a preparation for the videoed interview: 2 students play the role of interviewer, while 2 others play different personalities of the same field (science, arts, music).
Virtual Touring
In groups of 6-8, students complete a video-recording of a site (architectural structure, park, museum, chocolate factory, publishing house) which introduces its features and characteristics to a chosen audience (10-15 mins). The project (set on movie maker or power point file) contains an appropriate title, the purpose of the edited tour, the relevance of the sites to the target audience. It includes texts, images, sound/voice.
Alternatively, students shoot and/or collect relevant images of the physical setting (significant places) in the previously chosen movie and present them in class as they discuss the contents. The contents include Title of the Movie, names and features of the places and their significance in the story of the film. IMPORTANT: Allot 3-4 statements to describe an image.
Symposium on Movie
Students (in groups of 6-8) choose a movie and discuss its contents: plot summary, characters and their relationship (use a concept map to show their relationship/s), themes and analysis, conflict and resolution. During the class presentation, students may project the relevant scene/s and ACT-OUT a SCENE—a spin-off-- that depicts an ALTERNATIVE solution to the problem.
Oral-Aural Test: Group Discussion
Students listen to a recording or prepare a concept map on a designated topic and discuss in small groups (6-8), which take about 20-30 mins.
Attendance
Attendance in all classes is an important requirement in this course. You are expected to be present at all sessions. Yet, you are entitled to two (2) excused absences during the semester. If due to some unavoidable circumstances, you are not able to attend class, the instructor expects you to ask for a leave of absence to be formally excused from class.
Textbook
Attitude 5. (2007) Fuscoe, Kate, et.al. Macmillan Publishing.
(contact no: Bookman Bookstore 2368 7226)
Web Reference
http://efreeway.avcenter.ntu.edu.tw/freeway/online_application_English.htm
Class Rules: Some do’s and dont’s
1. BRING A4 sheets of paper and multi-colored-ink pen to class EVERY SESSION.
2. Learning takes place when one personally attends to one’s duties and fulfils them responsibly. Prepare for and revise after class –these are the true measure of an earnest learner.
3. SELF-STUDY the parts of the book that are not covered in class; they prepare you for the class-work and the homework, both ICT- and classroom-based.
4. GRAMMAR/VOCABULARY PRACTICE: There are units for Grammar and Vocabulary Practice in the book. You are expected to complete Grammar/Vocabulary Exercises ON YOUR OWN before coming to class.
5. “Punctuality is the soul of business” (Thomas Haliburton); and in the business of learning, you get LOW grades with LATE homework. Promptness is a desirable virtue. Any late homework IS GIVEN A GRADE OF 58!
6. Check announcements at CEIBA about ADDITIONAL homework (i.e. not specified in the present syllabus) and other supplementary info regularly.
7. Don’t keep your questions to yourself. If you’re lost in any part of the class, i.e. if you don’t understand any part of the class, or don’t know how to proceed with any homework/task, ASK immediately in class or, if you’re the shy type, see me after class or send me an e-mail. ASKING IS a form of learning; it is most needed in a highly interactive and CREATIVITY-FOCUSED course.
8. Be collaborative: Learning how to collaborate is a lifelong work, especially in this globalized Info Age.
Tentative Syllabus: Spring 2009
Tuesday, 3:30-6:10 RM Pu 506
Attitude 5. (2007) Fuscoe, Kate, et.al. Macmillan Publishing. Bookman: 2368 7226
Week Date Topics Ref Skills HW/ Tasks:
1 2.17 Course Description/ General Orientation P121, 126-127 Profiling/ Learning Plan
Letter of intent: Apprenticeship
Description of language proficiency
2 2.24 The Mind 6-7 Note-taking
3 3.3 Time Management 90-97 i Quotations on Time (92)
4 3.10 Movies,
Gandhi (video) P80-89,
20-25 Preparation: Me and my favorite actor, movie types, character relationship in CM, Theme analysis, plot, Awards and descriptions
5 3.17 Music 58, 60-61
6 3.24 Symposium Symposium on Movie-1
7 3.31 Migration 124-125, 130-131
8 4.7 Touring ICT-based Discussion-1 Presentation Draft: Place, Purpose, Audience and relevance, references
9 4.14 Midterm Presentation: Virtual Touring
10 4.21 Designating roles for Videoed-Interview 58, 60, 38-39
11 4.28 Relationship 42-47
12 5.5 Heroes/ Nobel Prizes 22-23; 84, 85 Prep 1: Interview Texts: Background, Discoveries, Vision
13 5.12 Interviewing ICT-based Discussion-2 Prep 2: Writing Questions;
14 5.19 Symposium Interview- (60)
15 5.26 Test Practice
16 6.2 Movie Projection Final test-1: Forum-Discussion of…
17 6.9 General Evaluation Final Test-2
18 6.16 General Evaluation ICT-based Test
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