- 使用教室
- 水7-8(W323)
- 単位数
- 講義：0 演習：2 実験：0
- 講義コード
- 99086
- シラバス更新日
- 2011年9月20日
- 講義資料更新日
- 2011年9月20日
- 学期
- 後期
講義概要
国際会議などの場で自らの意見を正確に伝達する高度の口頭表現技法を身につけるための訓練を行う。
講義の目的
This course will focus on listening, discussion and oral presentation skills. Students will learn how to discuss a topic and to voice their opinion in a logical way. The course will deal with a variety of contemporary topics which will be introduced through readings, radio broadcasts and video texts. Small group discussion will be the focus of the first half of the course. Other activities will include interview skills with an emphasis on actively asking questions. By the end of the course students should feel confident speaking in English in front of their peers. From the second half of the semester, students will be required to prepare and deliver a 10-minute oral presentation relating to their research activity.
講義計画
Sample topics:
1 Introduction: “Ambitions”: writing about yourself, asking about your classmate.
2 Japan and the Nobel Prize. Prestige and science.
3 (Mock Press Gallery interviews of famous people, weeks 3 to 6)
Science journalism; global warming: advocates and sceptics.
4 Science and technology in popular media.
Talking about your research for a lay person.
5 Talking about your research to a specialist audience; academic societies and conferences. Successful and unsuccessful oral presentations as seen on Youtube.
6. Material and imagined worlds: what is really important to us?
7 (Oral presentations start).
Japan’s changing views of the outside world and Japan’s security.
8 Overseas aid and development politics.
9 Opinion polls on attitudes to future scenarios.
10 Immigration futures.
11 Values, cultural capital and cultural nationalism.
12 Soft power and popular culture.
13 Oral tests.
14 Oral tests.
教科書・参考書等
The lecturer will distribute readings each week on topics which will form the basis of discussion and written assignments.
関連科目・履修の条件等
No prequisites.
成績評価
Course evaluation will be 40% for participation in weekly class activities, 20% for homework assignments, 30% for a 10-minute class presentation on a research topic, and 10% for an oral test.
この授業では、授業への積極的参加40％、課題20％、自分の研究テーマについての口頭発表30％、オーラルテスト10%の割合で成績を総合的にします。
担当教員の一言
Students should come prepared and have an interest in English.
学生の皆さんには、予習・復習することと、英語に興味を持つことを期待します。
