Web Syllabus(講義概要)

This course, held only in English, aims to improve students’ speaking and listening skills in communicative English. This includes the learning of various skills and knowledge, such as pronunciation, intonation, vocabulary, grammar, and word usage. Lessons include a variety of activities intended to stimulate students to actively practice speaking English in class. Since the course has an “oral communications” focus, active participation in class is required, both for grading and the students’ meaningful progress in speaking skills.

The objective of this course is to improve the English speaking and listening skills of students. Through various kinds of speaking and listening tasks, students are expected to learn to pronounce correctly, to expand vocabulary and to understand grammar structures. By the end of this semester, students should be able to develop more effective listening skills, acquire the ability to express themselves more effectively, and enhance the ability to better understand spoken English.

Exams 40%
Assignments 20%
Attendance and Participation 40%

Interchange 1A (Fourth Edition)
By Jack C. Richards
Published by Cambridge University Press

Students will work together in pairs and groups during listening and speaking exercises to improve their basic English skills. Homework assignments will be given out during the 15 week course.

Textbooks, notebooks, and bilingual dictionaries (English – Japanese) are required for all classes.