英语修辞学课件-ENGLISH RHETORIC.doc

ENGLISH RHETORIC (修辭學) Spring 2009 (2/23/2009 – 6/22/2009) Sophomore, Department of English Shih Hsin University Chen-ching Li 李振清Ph.D. TEL: (02) 2236-8225 ext 3571, e-mail: ccli@.tw .tw/~cte/gallery/ccli/ Office Hours: 15:10 – 17:00, Mon Wed. Office: Rm. 702, She-wo Building (舍我樓7樓702室) Office Hours: 13:00 – 4:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, or by appointment. Welcome back to our challenging English RHETORIC class for the spring semester of 2009 – Year of the Ox. It is time for all of you to brace for the challenge of further enhancing your English proficiency from a diverse perspective. Your performance last semester was recognized, and yet you can do better this spring through OUR joint efforts at SHU. In this(second) semester, you should get further involved in the piratical teaching and learning activities both inside and outside the classroom for enhancement of your English language skills. After the linguistic forging and English learning for one semester, you are now aware that RHETORIC simply means the art of speaking and writing effectively (Robitaille and Connelly 2005: 142). In fact, RHETORIC is designed to familiarize students of English as a foreign language with efficient communication, focusing primarily on the development of writing and speaking proficiency. To achieve this goal of learning on the part of students, the instructor will help further review practical syntactic (grammatical) structures, semantic functions as well as expansion of vocabulary based on extensive and intensive reading. ENGLISHT RHETORIC endeavors to enhance the four linguistic skills of English, focusing on the development of: Writing process (Chapters 3 - 7) Speaking strategies and rhetorical patterns (Chapters 8 - 18) Syntactic (Grammatical) Review and “Writing Elements” (Chapters 19 - 39) Reading enhancement through diverse contents (Chapters 1 – 39; handouts) Listening comprehension and reinforcement (Routine discussions) Class presentation through group dynamics, m