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.

 1.提供線上說明作業內容

 2.線上即時作業填答

 3.作業檔案上傳及下載

 4.線上測驗

 5.成績查詢

1. Online Discussions & Quizzes: 30%

2. Attendance & Participation 20%

3. Role Plays and Presentations: 15%

4. Mid-term Exam: 10%

5. Final Project and Presentation: 25%

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.

1. Weekly responses are essential.

2. Students’ attendance and participation are compulsory.

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

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

5. Students with more than 3 absences will be excluded from the midterm and/or final assessment(s).