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課程概述 |
Unlike what is normally expected in EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classrooms where students “learn to use English,” this course is designed to help and guide students to “use English to learn,” in their development of the four integrated* skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In other words, the focus of this course is on the process of learning. Students are thus expected to take full responsibility for their own learning and to take an active role in class, through a variety of exercises which would provide them with opportunities for individual reflection, pair/small-group work, as well as outside-of-class assignments. The themes/topics chosen for class materials are kept to be up-to-date, varied, and yet interesting enough for students to get and feel personally involved in making meaning.
*It should be noted that the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing can not really be separated. The increase in one will positively affect and interact with the others to produce a corresponding increase in overall language ability. |
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課程要求 |
Requirements and Rules
1. Class attendance, lesson preparation and active class participation are required.
2. 3 points will be deducted from the final grade for each unexcused absence. Being late for over 30 minutes is treated as absence for the class that day. If you are absent in case of uncontrollable situations (e.g. illness, emergency, etc.), be sure to give me valid proof within two weeks.
3. It is the student’s responsibility to find out what occurred and what was taught in class during his or her absence.
4. Writing assignments are required to be submitted within due date. 2 points will be deducted from the final grade for each late submission. All written assignments must be double-spaced, in a 12 point font, printed out and handed in during class. Electronic submissions will not be accepted.
Course Grading:
Attendance & participation 10%
Role play 30 %
Writing assignments 30%
Final exam 30 %
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