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.

The course contents are summarized as follows:
1. learning and using daily-life vocabulary and expressions;
2. reading and discussing multicultural and cross-disciplinary articles and books;
3. listening and responding to authentic and situational audio recordings;
4. engaging in in-class dialogues, group discussions, and/or other speaking activities;
5. writing play scripts, journals, and/or other assignments;
6. performing in-class plays; and
7. developing English learning strategies and effective study habits.

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.

The course contents are summarized as follows:
1. learning and using daily-life vocabulary and expressions;
2. reading and discussing multicultural and cross-disciplinary articles and books;
3. listening and responding to authentic and situational audio recordings;
4. engaging in in-class dialogs, group discussions, and/or other speaking activities;
5. writing play scripts, journals, and/or other assignments;
6. performing in-class plays; and
7. developing English learning strategies and effective study habits.

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 and 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.

Text book:
Passages Book 1 (3rd Edition)

Extended readers:
As the Inspector Said and Other stories -- retold by John Escott (Oxford Bookworms level 3)
The Curse of Capistrano -- Johnston McCulley (Oxford Dominoes level 2)

Text book:
Passages Book 1 (3rd Edition)

Extended readers:
As the Inspector Said and Other stories -- retold by John Escott (Oxford Bookworms level 3)
The Curse of Capistrano -- Johnston McCulley (Oxford Dominoes level 2)