This course gives introduces speech acts and gives students the ability to converse in daily converstions. This course lasts two semesters, or 36 weeks, with 2 class-hours every week. The course is worth 4 credits.

 

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to fulfill the requirements for the first level of the oral proficiency test in the national examinations and to satisfy communicative exchanges by relying on learned utterances but occasionally expanding these through simple combination of their elements. A variety of methods, from individuals to group activities, will be employed. The topics to be covered are speech acts that express emotional and intellectual attitudes for particular situations in everyday conversation. Students who pass this course should be able to create language by combining and recombining learned elements, though primarily in a reactive mode.

Teaching Contents and Methods:

1. This course uses a communicative approach for teaching oral English. The following is a breakdown of the method: Presenting vocabulary, asking questions, presenting dialogues, presenting and practicing structures, using the blackboard, fluency practice, correcting errors, and communicative activities.

2. New vocabulary will be introduced through meaning and showing how words are used in context. There will be the use of different question types and possible strategies to elicit short and long answers from students. Introductory structures will be in the form of dialogues. Key structures will be presented and shown how to make different sentences. Use the blackboard as an aid in presentation. Give students fluency practice using key structures to elicit sentences. Error correction will be employed throughout the learning process. Further practice using communicative activities by making up dialogues based on situations, doing role-play, surveying a questionnaire.

 

 

Materials

 

Spoken English Self-Taught. Book One

Shuiping Kaoshi (yi) zixuefudao ( A guide to the self-taught proficiency test. Book One.

 

Assessment

 

This is a data collection procedure to make informed decisions about a student. These formal and informal processes are nonquantitative in nature.

 

Attendance, class participation, final exam