FL 2024-1

Brief

This course is designed to improve students’ spoken English and their communication skills. In part, by redefining their roles as non- native speakers, students will be discouraged from identifying themselves as deficient pursuers of “authentic” language proficiency. Instead, they will be encouraged, through practices, to elevate themselves from language learners to language users. Textbooks and other supplemental reading materials will be used to equip students with competence for expressing themselves in diverse social settings. Through class discussions and various class activities, including but not limited to impromptu speeches, dramatic (theatrical) presentations, hosting discussions, etc., students will be expected to master the arts of communication in contexts ranging from small talk to group discussion and formal public speaking.

Description

Course keywords: oral speaking, ex<x>pression, communication, 口語,表達,溝通 英語口語訓練二(English Oral Practice) Spring 2021 Mon. 1320-1520 C522 Instructor: 黃仕宜 (Joy Huang) E-mail: shihyihuang@mx.nthu.edu.tw Office: 人社A512 Extension number: 42705 This course is designed to improve students’ spoken English and their communication skills. In part, by redefining their roles as non-native speakers, students will be discouraged from identifying themselves as deficient pursuers of “authentic” language proficiency. Instead, they will be encouraged, through practices, to elevate themselves from language learners to language users. Textbooks and other supplemental reading materials will be used to equip students with competence for expressing themselves in diverse social settings. Through class discussions and various class activities, including but not limited to impromptu speeches, dramatic (theatrical) presentations, hosting discussions, etc., students will be expected to master the arts of communication in contexts ranging from small talk to group discussion and formal public speaking. Textbook: Communication Strategies 4 Grading Criteria: Midterm Presentation (prepared speech): 25% Final Presentation (impromptu speech): 25% Host (running dictation): 10% In-Class Activities: 40% Tentative Schedule: 1. 2/22 Orientation 2. 3/1 OFF 3. 3/8 Unit 8 4. 3/15 Unit. 8 5. 3/22 Unit 9 6. 3/29 Unit 10 7. 4/5 OFF 8. 4/12 Unit 10 9. 4/19 MIDTERM 10. 4/26 Unit 11 11. 5/03 cont. 12. 5/10 Unit. 12 13. 5/17 Cont. 14. 5/24 Unit. 13 15. 5/31 Unit 14 16. 6/07 unit 15 17. 6/14 OFF 18. 6/21 Final This schedule is subject to change by instructor at all times. Classroom conduct: 1. Attendance/ Absence: - Two points from your Final Grade will be deducted per absence. - You can be absent up to two times without having points deducted. This includes all excuses (sick leave, personal leave, official leave, etc.) - Tardiness and Roll Call: a. You are expected to attend all class meetings ON time. If you’re 15 min. late, then you’re counted as “absent” for the class period. During the class periods, if I notice some students are missing, I might take roll again. Those who are absent will be counted “absent” on that day. b. Roll call—this can happen anytime during the class periods. If you happen to be temporarily absent (i.e. in the bathroom), it is YOUR responsibility to inform the teacher on the SAME day. Otherwise you are counted as absent. 2. Please provide your full Chinese name and student number in order to secure your grades in all exams and class activities. 3. No makeup of any class activities. 4. Bonus Points: You may earn bonus points by participating in speech contests (whether you win any prize or not). Each time you participate will earn you 3 points, and you may accumulate at most 6 bonus points through this means. To get the points, you will need to show some proof, as well as recounting the experience to the class. 5. Participation: Students will be called on to answer questions, and this participation of class discussion is regarded highly. Your participation grade in this class includes work done in class, your attendance, completed homework, a respectful attitude to the class, and so on. Just being present in class does NOT automatically guarantee a high participation grade. 6. Classroom Civility: All students are expected to turn off their electronic devices (i.e. cell phone). Please show respect to the class at all times. Any disruptive behavior, such as chatting, or playing music, will not be tolerated. If you do not agree with something, it is your right to RESPECTFULLY bring that to the attention of the class in a polite manner. Suggestions are always welcome. Any behavior that disturbs the class will cause a grade deduction (i.e. talking to your fellow classmates, talking on or playing with cell phones, and so on). Five points of a student's final grade will be deducted each time the instructor's warning is ignored. Absence and Late Work: All assignments are due on the dates announced and/or indicated on the syllabus. There will be no make-up presentations/ assignments. Appendix 1 Midterm PechaKucha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM4TXMBGLdY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PechaKucha Students are to have a professional presentation with ppt on topics of their own choice. The presentation mode is PechaKucha. Each presentation should contain 15 slides (automatic set) with each slide run for 20 seconds (a total of 5 min.) Note: Your talk should be a narrative on a topic that you aim to educate/ entertain/ inform your audience. It should not be a “recitation” of a poem or a short fiction. Be prepared to talk about your topic on week 7. Appendix 2 Hosting “Running Dictation” (10-15 min.) Each group (a pair of students) needs to host a “Running Dictation.” The group is responsible for preparing texts for the competition, timing and explaining grading criteria and grading groups. After the event, each group should email the assistant their grades for the other groups in the class. The group of students who scores highest (excluding the grades for the times they themselves host) in total would earn 3 bonus points towards their final grades. Below is how the activity is played: A. Students pair up. Choose who will run and who will write. (They could swap tasks if your activity allows.) B. Print out one text and break it into two sections. Present both out in the corridor (in either written or recorded form). You should design each section of text for students to be able to read/listen and summarize within 30 seconds. Then have the running student run (or power-walk) to you and, read/ listen, remember as much as they can (and return to you the text, if it’s written on a piece of paper) and then return to dictate the text to the writing student. C. Following that, members swap roles and run again for the second section of the text. Each group hands in their summary to the host, who should post their grading on ILMS sometime during the same day. In the post, the hosts should explain grading of each group according to criteria announced before the game (accuracy of the account, degrees of details, etc. depending on the style of articles you choose for them.) General rules applied to all: a) No phone cameras to “remember” the text. b) “Running” students are not allowed to write—they can spell words out and tell their partner when they’re wrong. c) The “writing” students cannot go and look at the text. The “running” students should return the information paper back to the hosts after the allotted reading time (the host should indicate that before the game starts.) Grading Criteria (for hosts): 1. Text choice - Length and content of your text should be easy enough for students to remember/summarize, and should be hard enough to make them struggle in the process of reading, remembering, summarizing and writing. - The hosts should know the text by heart, and present clear grading criteria according to the text chosen (tell your students what are keys for them to remember/summarize according to the article you choose: debate, details, statistics, controversies, feelings or description?) 2. Order maintenance: - Make sure you organize your game in a way that is clear for your fellow classmates to follow. - Make sure you provide assistance to students who need help in the process of the competition. 3. Grading report: - Make sure you grade each group according to the criteria announced. You might include not only grades but also comments. - Make sure your grading report is turned in (posted on ILMS) in time (by the end of the day).

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Timetable

Scores

Average Percentage 82.27

Std. Deviation 4.49

Remarks

本課程為 16 週課程

Restrictions

【上學期原修英語口語訓練一FL 203901(黃仕宜老師)同學選課優先,第3次選課起開放】

Compulsory

Elective

Cross Discipline

First Specialization

Second Specialization