Student Expectations of the Freshman English Course at Chinese Culture University

中國文化大學學生對“大一英文”課程的期望調查研究

蔡鈺鑫(Yu-Hsin Tsai)

《Hwa Kang Journal of English Language & Literature》 3期 (1997/07) Pp. 49-71

https://doi.org/10.7109/HKJELL.199707.0049

摘要

本文透過一項五個問題的問卷，針對中國文化大學四班大一學生進行調查，以瞭解其對「大一英文」課程之期望與看法，作爲設計與改進此課程教學之參考。本調查發現：一、大部份受調的學生(63.41%)期望「大一英文」課程應以增進英語能力，甚少數的學生(6.09%)認爲應以欣賞西洋文學，爲主要的教學目標。二、有45.73%的學生認爲「大一英文」應四技並重，31.09%認爲應加強聽說能力，10.97%認爲應加強讀寫能力。三、有54.26%的學生不贊成，45.73%的學生贊成，「大一英文」可以將中國文化列爲教學的內容之一。四、有68.29%的學生贊成，20.73%的學生不贊成，「大一英文」爲通識課程。五、四班受調學生中，對「大一英文」的五大期望依序爲：1、學習實用之英文；2、加強聽說能力3、敢且能用英文會話或交談；4、期望輕鬆、活潑、生動有趣的教學；5、增進讀寫能力。

並列摘要

This paper uses a five-question questionnaire survey to investigate four freshman classes' expectations of the Freshman English course at the Chinese Culture University. Several significant findings have been made in this survey. First, most students surveyed (63.41%) expect to improve English language skills and only a few students (6.09%) expect to learn to appreciate Western literature as the primary goal of Freshman English (FE) course. Second, as for the primary goal of FEC, 47.73% of the students selected improving all four English language skills, 31.09% improving listening and speaking, and 10.97% reading and writing. Third, as regards considering taking Chinese culture into account as part of the FE curriculum, 54.26% of the students disagree but 45.73% agree. Fourth, 68.92% of the students agree but 20.73% disagree that FE is a course of general education in nature. Fifth, the top five expectations these four classes held towards FE are, in order of priority: 1. learning real-life or practical English; 2. improving listening and speaking skills; 3. being bold and courageous enough to converse in English; 4. expecting a light, lively and interesting class; and 5. increasing reading and writing abilities.