Course Description

This course is designed to help students develop communicative proficiency in English. The four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing are integrated by means of topics, situations, functional expressions and structures which are analyzed and personalized.

Scope

　This course includes:
- An integrated multi-skills syllabus
- Contemporary, real-world topics
- Conversational language
- Task-based listening activities
- Opportunities to share opinions and ideas
- Student-centered fluency activities
- Vocabulary-building exercises
- High-interest reading passages

Teaching and Learning Methods

The teaching of this course is guided by the conviction that to be a student at NTU is to be an autonomous, self-motivated individual, and also a member of an academic community with whom the student must interact in various roles and contexts. Teaching methods, therefore, are student-centered, task-based and collaborative. Students are guided in the classroom to ‘learn through doing’, engaging in problem-solving activities in pairs, small groups and in plenary discussions. Individual learning will be reinforced in the completion of homework assignments. The role of the instructor, therefore, is to present a new skill or language-focus, to stage and grade activities effectively, to facilitate and monitor performance of tasks in class.