Students who complete this course are expected to be able to use their general knowledge about the world to understand and communicate in English. The objectives include:

1. increase the ability to listen to English with enough comprehension in order to respond appropriately,
2. increase the ability to use reading skills such as skimming, scanning, identifying main idea, making inferences, and guessing vocabulary in context in order to understand academic texts,
3. increase the ability to use written English for academic purposes, such as writing summary and reading reactions in the format of paragraphs,
4. increase the ability to speak/respond spontaneously and appropriately, and ability to ask for clarification.I. Active Skills for Reading. (Book 3) by Neil J. Anderson. New York: Thomson Heinle. (or the new edition)

II. Connect with English Script 1, by McPartland-Fairman et al. Published by McGraw Hill, 1998.

III. Supplementary materials and selected articles from various sources

IV. Simplified Readers for the first semester: The Scarlet Letter (Oxford), The Wind in the Willows (Oxford), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford) Winterbreak: Frankenstein (Penguin), TBA

Students who complete this course are expected to be able to use their general knowledge about the world to understand and communicate in English. The objectives include:

1. increase the ability to listen to English with enough comprehension in order to respond appropriately,
2. increase the ability to use reading skills such as skimming, scanning, identifying main idea, making inferences, and guessing vocabulary in context in order to understand academic texts,
3. increase the ability to use written English for academic purposes, such as writing summary and reading reactions in the format of paragraphs,
4. Increase the ability to speak/respond spontaneously and appropriately, and ability to ask for clarification.I. Active Skills for Reading. (Book 3) by Neil J. Anderson. New York: Thomson Heinle. (or the new edition)

II. Connect with English Script 1, by McPartland-Fairman et al. Published by McGraw Hill, 1998.

III. Supplementary materials and selected articles from various sources

IV. Simplified Readers for the first semester: The Scarlet Letter (Oxford), The Wind in the Willows (Oxford), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford) Winterbreak: Frankenstein (Penguin), TBA

Freshman English for Non-English Majors (FENM) is a required course for the majority of freshmen at Tunghai University. This course is intended as a general four skills (namely, listening, speaking, reading, and writing) integrated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) course emphasizing English fluency in general contexts, i.e., English use for general purposes. Thereby, the course is designed to help students use their existing general knowledge about themselves and about the world along with the knowledge of the English language they have acquired to enhance their general English proficiency and enrich their personal background knowledge by using English to learn and communicate. Specifically, the FENM course maximizes students’ opportunities to use English in a wide variety of contexts both in and outside class. Furthermore, it provides an atmosphere that will increase students’ participation and confidence in a non-threatening, whole-English learning environment and that will facilitate students’ acquisition of new knowledge and skills of the English language and new knowledge about the world.
大一英文是東海大學大一學生之必修課程，本課程融合英語文聽、說、讀、寫等語言技能，著重英語文在一般情境、場合使用中所需之語言技能與流利度。因此，本課程設計主要在於幫助學生結合自己個人既有之一般性智能與英語文智能，藉由用英語文學習及溝通之方式，提升學生之英語文能力及充實學生之個人智能。具體而言，本課程提供多元化之學習情境與活動，讓學生在課堂、課外皆有充分使用英語文之機會，同時，亦提供一個和諧愉快、全英語文之課堂學習環境，藉以增加學生課堂活動之參與及學習英語文之信心，並有助於充實學生之英語文智能與個人智能。

Freshman English for Non-English Majors (FENM) is a required course for the majority of freshmen at Tunghai University. This course is intended as a general four skills (namely, listening, speaking, reading, and writing) integrated English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) course emphasizing English fluency in general contexts, i.e., English use for general purposes. Thereby, the course is designed to help students use The FENM course maximums students’ opportunities to use English in a wide variety of contexts both in and outside class. Further, it provides an atmosphere that will increase students’ participation and confidence in a non-threatening, whole-English learning environment and that will facilitate students’ acquisition of new knowledge and skills of the English language and new knowledge about the world.
Freshman English is a compulsory course for senior students at Donghai University. This course combines English listening, speaking, reading, writing and other language skills, focusing on the language skills and fluency required for English in general situations and field use. Therefore, this course design mainly focuses on helping students combine their own existing general intelligence with English intelligence, and improve students' English abilities and fulfill their personal intelligence through English literature learning and communication. Specifically, this course provides a diverse learning situation and activities, allowing students to fully utilize English in class and outside the course. At the same time, it also provides a harmonious and pleasant, English-wide classroom learning environment to increase students' participation in class activities and confidence in learning English, and helps to enrich students' English intelligence and personal intelligence.

Langan, John. Ten steps to building college reading skills. Townsend Press.
Flemming, Laraine. Reading for results. Houghton Mifflin company.
richard-Amoto, Patricia A. Exploring themes: An Interactive Approach to Literature. Longman.

Langan, John. Ten steps to building college reading skills. Townsend Press.
Flemming, Laraine. Reading for results. Houghton Mifflin company.
richard-Amoto, Patricia A. Exploring themes: An Interactive Approach to Literature. Longman.