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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.
本課程將教導學生基礎商務溝通、聽力技巧。學生將在練習各種商務相關英文會話、聽力的過程中，學習各種溝通技巧。同時，在本課程中，學生也將學習到各種商務禮節，肢體語言及文化差異。本課程旨在發展學生的商務英語能力及理解各種商務社交文化。
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.
本課程將提供密集的會話訓練，以增進學生的在各種商務情境中的表現，如:會議、簡報發表、社交及電話聯絡…等，以及其他的實際技巧運用層面，如提出建議和要求;表達同意與否，和他人解釋及釐清自己的想法...等。更進一步的，學生將學習各種表現技巧，包含商務禮儀和對文化差異的理解，以期增進溝通的成效及對社交禮節的了解。雖然本課程為商務「會話」，學生仍可在修習本課程後，增進自己的商務溝通能力。
作業說明
�� 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. Assignments & Quizzes: 25% (作業及考試:25% )
2. Role Plays and Presentations: 25%(角色扮演及發表:25%)
3. Mid-term Exam: 25% (期中考:25%)
4. Final Project and Presentation: 25% (期末報告發表:25%)
5. Weekly responses are essential. (每週回覆是必須的)
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.(期中、期末考前每位同學需各別發表至少14篇回應，共28篇。每位同學需於每次討論時至少發表一篇回覆。)
其他
1. Students’ attendance and participation are compulsory. (本課程要求學生出席及高度課堂參與。)
2. Interaction with classmates and punctual submission of assignments are necessary. (與同學的互動及按時繳交作業是必須的。)
3. Many of your assignments request group discussions. Interaction with your classmates in ‘English’ will further help you practice your business communication skills.(本課程作業常需要進行小組討論，與同學間以「英文」)進行討論能更有效地增進同學們的英文溝通能力。
