| Description
| This junior-college English program consists of four-year English courses, with the purposes to develop fluency in reading and writing, and to improve listening and speaking abilities. The communicative approach and the whole language philosophy are thus adopted to implement the curriculum. In these courses, students have plenty of opportunities to take part in role-plays, oral presentations, pair work, small-group discussions and whole-class discussions for communicative purposes; they have good opportunities to express their feelings and thoughts in their essays and journal entries. A variety of reading, writing, and oral communication tasks are provided with a view to developing students' reading, writing, and oral communication skills, and to facilitating their using appropriate, effective learning strategies to accomplish learning tasks. In a word, the purpose of this curriculum is to motivate students to learn English, and to help them gradually become confident and competent use
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