授業の概要 |
Goal (Reading): Readings are supplemented by authentic texts, including literary works. Students learn skills of interpretation, inference, critical analysis, and evaluation. Extensive out-of-class reading, including authentic material, continues.
Goal (Writing): Students write journals and responses to readings with attention on paragraph and essay structure. Summary, analysis and evaluation writing skills are practiced. Academic writing is done through short answer and essay exams, more extensive library reports, and research papers. Students are introduced to skills of note-taking, annotating, outlining, etc.
Goal(Listening and Speaking): Students develop their oral proficiency to include conversational skills across a variety of situations and topics, in addition to those introduced in core texts.
Oral presentation skills are expanded to cover academic and professional topics through reports, presentations, panels and debates. Students continue to do extensive out-of-class listening with authentic material.
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