課程介紹教師介紹課歷進教室遠距須知示範教材
第一期: 商務聽力與會話 (Business English Conversation)

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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

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. (學生可以透過E-Mail與教師聯絡。所有E-Mail與訊息會於48小時內回覆。)

Every week the teacher will spend at least two hours on-line to respond the students’ questions in real time through the chat-room device of the course website.(教師每週至少兩小時會於課程之線上討論室即時回覆學生問題 )  

 

If the student is not available during the office hours, he/she can make an appointment for further discussion.(若學生時間無法配合,學生可與教師另行約談。)

 

評分標準

 1. 線上討論 & 測驗:30%

2. 出席 & 課堂參與:20%
3.
角色扮演和報告(期中考):15%
4.
期中考筆試:10%
5.
期末報告:25%

Before mid-term and final exams, every student needs to post at least 6 messages separately, 12 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.

期中考和期末考前,每個學生都必須要上傳6則留言,整學期共12則。也就是每周需上傳一則自己的留言並回復一則他人的留言。

 

其他

 

1. Participation and attendance are mandatory.學生必須出席並參與課堂活動。

2. Interaction with classmates and punctual submission of assignments are mandatory. 學生必須與同學互動並準時繳交作業。

3. Group discussions are highly required. Interactions with your classmates in ‘English’ will further help you sharpen your business communication skills. 作業中有許多需要小組討論的部分。使用英文與同學交談可增進商務溝通技巧。

5. Students with more than 2 absences will be excluded from the midterm and/or final assessment(s). 缺席2次以上的同學將無法參與期中及/或期末考。

 

 

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