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3. Measures for improvement
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發文單位：Implementation and Improvement 張貼日期：2012-11-05 |
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| 3.Measures for improvement |
1. To understand students’ needs: our school
implemented the survey of English courses reform questionnaire. The content of
the questionnaire is to understand the needs for students learning English and
advices for English courses reform outcome. Based on these questionnaires, we
plan the suitable courses for students, improve teaching and learning
resources, and improve our quality of English teaching to raise our students’
English proficiency and learning motivations.
2. To improve the English teaching quality: We plan
to invite all the English teachers to join the “Conference of Knowledge and
skills for English teachers “on the first week of the end of second semester
each academic year. The teachers can do the teaching observation of English
courses of freshman and sophomore and ESP courses to understand the English
requirement, courses focus, teaching objectives, teaching situation and the size
of vocabulary that students need to learn.(Appendix III: Agenda and the content
for conference.)
3. To establish courses feature: our school plans to
change the content of Advanced Reading for sophomore to career English, and
then officially name the course: Career English in the future to make our
English courses become more efficient and have diversity. The course is
designed for students’ needs of entering career field and establishing our
English course feature.
4. To renew the
teaching method and materials：To choose the
suitable unity materials for junior each year and provide the choices for
teachers to choose the suitable one, students can raise their learning interests.
As for renewing teaching method, we use the Blended Learning. Except for the
face to face teaching in class, the online courses and system for test are
added gradually to improve students’ English ability.
5. English
certificate：The goals of
ESP professional English courses are to implement the professional English
courses and encourage the students to participate with every kind of test for certificate.
For example, Travel English are for the tour guide certificate and the tour
manager certificate rather than conversation for taking a trip. We also
encourage every department can make the ESP become the required and selective
courses. For example, the Technical English is the required course for
Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Business English and Converstaion is
the required course for International Management Program, the English Business
Letter is the selective course for Department of Business Management, and the
Technical English is the English course for graduate program in Department of
Electronic Engineering.
6. To exempt from taking the English courses of
freshman and sophomore: To encourage students who have passed the same level as
GEPT intermediate can exempt from taking the English course of freshman.
Students who passed the exemption of paper-pencil test and oral test can exempt
from taking the English course of sophomore to decrease the number of taking
the English course of English and become the small-size class. Also, we encourage the
students who have exempted the English courses can join the English Elite
Program or select the ESP courses to raise their Professional English ability.
7. To lower down the number of taking English
Enhancement: To open the English Enhancement is the supplementary measure for Yuntech:
Implementation of requirements for University students’ English proficiency and
it is for students who do not pass the English requirement. Since the second
semester in 2010, English Enhancement was changed to the selective course for senior.
Moreover, students need to sign up English proficiency test out of school at
least one time before the fourth year. For senior, they can take the
supplementary course. We encourage students to learn English constantly and
participate with English proficiency test out of school. We hope that the
number of taking the English Enhancement can decrease since 2011.
(Table 10)
Number of taking the English Enhancement
course
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Academic year/semester
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99/1
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99/2
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Number
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365
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307
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8. To take the advices from our alumni and people in industrial
field: To make our students enter the industrial field smoothly after
graduation, we design the related English courses to connect with industries
and raise students’ learning interests. We will ask our alumni and professional
people in industrial field for advices of improvement of curriculum to make the
courses become more practical to use in career.
9. The cooperation
of full-time teachers and adjunct teachers: our school hired the outstanding Chinese
and foreign full-time lecturers and lower down the number of adjunct teachers
since 2007 to help the students in learning. Also, we choose the adjunct
lecturers who have high teaching satisfaction to be the English teachers for
freshman and sophomore. The full-time contract lecturers not only teach but
assist the students or the administrative affair of school.
10. To establish the classroom rules: teachers should
establish the classroom rules in the first class each semester and communicate
with students to follow those rules. Teacher should correct properly when there
is a improper behavior and learn to how to use gestures and body language to
control the classroom atmosphere. By these methods, teacher can manage the
class in order and make the class atmosphere be suitable for raising the
teaching quality.
11. To plan the
contract lecturer to be the dual class teacher and cooperate with other
department. Teacher would arrange the students to have the English learning counseling
in group and help the students know how to learn English to raise students’
English proficiency.
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