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College English (I) 季陶 340516, Fall 2013 Instructor: Yi-Ping Huang Email:
[email protected] Office: Research Building 715 Phone: #88101 Office Hour: 2:00-4:00 Thu.; By Appointment (Please make an appointment in advance.) Course Description This course is the first semester of the one-year general English classes for intermediate learners of English. It aims to cultivate students’ four skills of English through a task-based and content-based design of the curriculum. Specific goals for the four skills are listed below: Specific Goals: 1. Listening skills: Students can understand short dialogues, casual conversations, mini-lectures, public announcements, and short local and international news, especially those related to the class. 2. Speaking skills: Students can carry on self-introduction and narrate an event and a story. They can initiate, continue and close a conversation. They can also participate in group discussions, ask questions, interview, and express opinions on materials, especially those related to the class. 3. Reading skills: Students can learn reading strategies and apply them to authentic materials. These strategies include vocabulary building, scanning, skimming, analyzing structures, main ideas, supporting details, identifying facts vs. opinions, and inference. 4. Writing skills: Students can write a well-organized paragraph. They can also analyze the structures of reading, summarize and write a short reading report. These skills will be taught in a cooperative learning environment where students’ active participation and cooperation with peers are required. Through mastering these skills, students are expected to become autonomous, active and critical learners of English. At all times, students are encouraged to think of English as a means of communication, rather than as a school subject. Required Textbooks (政大書城) 1. Reading Explorer 3 (RE3) Required Materials (downloadable from the E-learning platform) 2. Hot Topics 3 (HT3) 3. Refining Composition Skills (RCS) 4. Writing to Communicate (II) 5. Supplementary Handouts Grading 1. Participation & attendance 15% 2. Assigned readings 12% 3. Group Presentation 15% 4. Paragraph Writing 20% 5. Oral Presentation 20% 6. Final Exam 18% Schedule (Subject to change according to learners’ needs) Week Date Topics & Assignments 1 09/18 Introduction to the course -Self-introduction 2 09/25 HT3: The Disabled 3 10/02 RE3: (Unit 1B) What Makes an Olympic Champion? (pp. 15-19) Explore More: High Altitude Peoples 4 10/09 RE3: (Unit 2A) What is Beauty? The Enigma of Beauty (Group 1 Presentation) 5 10/16 RE3: (Unit 2A) Skin: The Body’s Canvas (Group 2 Presentation) (pp. 27-31) ICRT: Top Unhealthy Snack List 6 10/23 RE3: (Unit 3A) Saving the Panda (Group 3 Presentation)
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RE3: (Unit 4B) When the Earth Moves (Group 4 Presentation) Explore More: Leopard Under Threat RE3: (Unit 5A) The Perfect Beach (Group 5 Presentation) RE3: (Unit 5B) Land of Fire and Ice (Group 6 Presentation) CNN: McCoffee vs. Starbucks RE3: (Unit 7A) The World’s Favorite Drug (Group7 Presentation) RE3: (Unit 7B) Addicted to Fossil Fuel (Group 8 Presentation) Oral presentation skills Introduction to Paragraph -Topic and topic sentences Assignment: outline (12/08 Noon) -Unity and Coherence Assignment: 1st draft (12/15 Noon) Paragraph Writing #1: Peer Review and Group Conference Assignment: final draft (12/22 Noon) Final Exam No Class Oral Presentation (1) Oral Presentation (2)
Important Notes 1. Your attendance, participation, and contribution are highly valued. Please attend class ON TIME. Fifteen minutes late for the class will be counted as an absence. You will NOT pass the course if you are absent over THREE times (with or without any valid excuses). Email the instructor when you need to take a leave. 2. All assignments should be uploaded to “assignments” on the E-learning platform before the due date. No late work will be accepted unless an emergency indicates otherwise. No make-up for assignments or exams (quizzes) is allowed. 3. Group presentation: Each group, with 4 to 5 members, is responsible for an assigned unit. Details about group presentations will be announced in class. 4. Final oral presentation: This is an individual oral presentation. Each student will give an oral presentation on a chosen topic for 3 minutes. 5. Bonus points: You are encouraged to participate in English-related activities at NCCU or outside school, or keep your own journals or work on self-study programs online. All of your extra work related to English learning will add to your final grade, if you show me proof of your effort. 6. Plagiarism: No plagiarism is allowed in this class. If you plagiarize others’ texts and/or ideas, you will not pass the course. Recommended Dictionaries & Grammar Books (圖書館) 1. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (with CD-ROM) 2. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary 3. Dictionary of Contemporary English (with CD-ROM), Longman 4. Language Activator, Longman 5. The BBI Dictionary of English Word Combinations (BBI 英語搭配詞典) 6. Longman Common Errors (朗文常用英語正誤辭典) 7. Advanced Grammar in Use 8. Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary 9. Merriam-Webster’s learner dictionary http://www.learnersdictionary.com/ Corpus & collocation 1. Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) 美國現代英文語料庫 http://corpus.byu.edu/coca 2. British National Corpus (BNC) 英國國家語料庫 http://bncweb.lancs.ac.uk/bncwebSignup/user/login.php 3. Sketchengine Additional Resources 1. On-line Language Learning, Purdue University http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/ 2. Self-Access Language Center, National Chengchi University http://flc.nccu.edu.tw/salc/index.php?page=Relatedlinks 3. Writing tutorial service, National Chengchi University http://flc.nccu.edu.tw/writingcenter/
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