Course Objectives科目宗旨

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. 作業說明

The students are welcome and encouraged to contact the teacher via email and course message board.  All the emails or messages will be replied no later than 48 hours.

Every week the teacher will spend at least two hours on-line to respond the students’ questions in real time. Interaction devices include the chat room of the course website, MSN or telephone. 

If the student is not available during the office hours, he/she can make an appointment for further discussion.

評分標準

1. Assignments & Quizzes: 25%
2. Role Plays and Presentations: 25%
3. Mid-term Exam: 25%
4. Final Project and Presentation: 25%
5. Weekly responses are essential.
Before mid-term and final exams, every student needs to post at least 14 messages separately, 28 messages in total. That is, you should post at least one message and respond to one of your classmate's message for each discussion topic.

其他

 

1. Students’ attendance and participation are compulsory.

2. Interaction with classmates and punctual submission of assignments are necessary.

3. Many of your assignments request group discussions. Interaction with your classmates in ‘English’ will further help you practice your business communication skills.