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This course provides a functional syllabus, teaching students fundamental skills with focus on speaking and listening for business communication. Students will learn how to achieve various communicative functions by practicing speaking and listening English in business contexts. They will also learn business etiquette, body language and cultural differences in this course. The overall aim of this course is to develop students' language proficiency and improve their social grace for business purposes.
Themes and Approaches單元教學目標
This course aims to provide intensive conversation training to improve the students' business performance skills such as meetings, presentations, socializing and telephoning. Other linguistically functional areas, such as making recommendations and requests; agreeing and disagreeing, elaborating and clarifying and so on, are also included. In addition, behavioral skills including business etiquette and intercultural differences will be mentioned accordingly to improve effective communication and social grace. Although the course title is Business English ‘Conversation', the students are expected to develop fundamental ‘communication' competence in business context at the end of the course.
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Perspective Students 適用對象
This course is suitable for business students as well as those who would intend to work in the global workplace. Note that the instructional language of this course is English. Learners with lower-intermediate English proficiency are suggested to take this into consideration before taking the course. Taking some other business-related subjects will be also helpful.
Pre-requirements學前能力
Those who would like to take this course are expected to have intermediate English proficiency (equivalent to TOEIC score 450 or above). Before taking this course, students are advised to take general English courses and business-related subjects.
作業說明1. There will be weekly notice and instructions for assignments.
2. Students can upload their reports to the course website.
3. There are weekly announcements and emails sent by the instructor to help students review course content and prepare their assignments.
4. The grades will be uploaded and announced on the course website. Students can check their grades in two weeks after they submitted their reports.
5. Students can always make appointments with the teacher to discuss their course work any time.
評分標準1. Student presentations and role plays: 35%
2. Mid-term exam: 30%
3. Final exam: 35%
4. Weekly responses are essential.
— Before mid-term and final exams, every student needs to post at least 14 responses separately, 28 messages in total. — If there are less than 14 responses, one missing response costs 2 points of mid-term or final exam grade.
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