Course Objectives:
1. enhance their English listening ability;
2. enhance their English speaking ability;
3. enhance their English reading ability;
4. enhance their English writing ability;
5. enhance their overall English communicative ability; and
6. enhance their knowledge of cultural diversity and international perspective

Course Contents:
1. Quizzes
2. Orals
3. Writing
4. Participation

Course Objectives:
1. enhance their English listening ability;
2. enhance their English speaking ability;
3. enhance their English reading ability;
4. enhance their English writing ability;
5. enhance their overall English communicative ability; and
6. enhance their knowledge of cultural diversity and international perspective

Course Contents:
1. Quizzes
2.Orals
3. Writing
4. Participation

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 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.

Freshman English is a compulsory course for first-year students of Tunghai University. This course integrates English listening, speaking, reading, writing and other language skills, focusing on the language skills and fluency required for using English in general situations and occasions. Therefore, the design of this course is mainly to help students combine their own personal general intelligence and English language intelligence, and improve students' English language ability and enrich students' personal intelligence by learning and communicating in English. Specifically, this course provides diversified learning situations and activities so that students have the opportunity to fully use English in and outside of class. At the same time, it also provides a harmonious and pleasant classroom learning environment that is all English, thereby increasing students' participation in classroom activities and their confidence in learning English, and helping to enrich students' English language and personal intelligence.

1. The reading material (and listening textbook) remains the same as the first semester.
Reading Explored Book 2
Listen In Student Book
2. Matilda by Roald Dahl (Original)
3. Online videos and articles will be added to class as supplement resource.
4. Handouts taken from English learning magazines are also included.

1. The reading material (and listening textbook) remains the same as the first semester.
Reading Explored Book 2
Listen In Student Book
2. Matilda by Roald Dahl (Original)
3. Online videos and articles will be added to class as supplement resource.
4. Handouts taken from English learning magazines are also included.