In line with NUCB's mission statement, this English language course aims to educate and inspire students to become innovative and ethical leaders through the medium of English. In so doing, it is hoped they can grasp and take on the ideal of ʻFrontier Spiritʼ and the ability to create knowledge in English for the advancement of business and society.

*This is a SAC compulsory course.

This advanced English language course provides students with complex readings and listening activities that emphasize the foundational English learned in the previous terms. The productive and receptive tasks will contain material at the CEFR B2 & C1 and TOEIC® 700 levels score range. This course has a special focus on grammar and vocabulary relevant for the TOEIC® exam learned through reading, writing, listening, speaking, and communication tasks that reinforce previously covered materials throughout the current and previous academic terms but with an increase in the complexity of the materials presented and the tasks required of the students. Across the classes, assignments and tasks are presented in individual, pair and group work formats along with homework and individual study components for active learning. This course also involves the required completion of 20 hours of self-directed learning in the SAC with the support of SAC staff and SAC volunteers.
Building on the previous 500, 600 core courses, this course will further strengthen students' four English language skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, in order to prepare them in their pursuit of graduation and post-graduation goals, including job searching, job application and /or further academic study.

*本学の教育ミッションを具現化する形で設定されています。

- Grammar: to review grammar previously learned, to use the grammar of each week productively
- Vocabulary: to review and recycle vocabulary via receptive and productive tasks
- Reading: to improve reading fluency, and to learn and use critical reading strategies, such as skimming and scanning and context and situational cues
- Listening: to learn and use listening strategies to identify key information, facts, and main ideas via audio or video samples;
- Speaking: to discuss topics from multiple perspectives, to accurately describe/explain business-related actions and events, to be able to ask and respond to questions about one's and someoneʼs daily business life;
- Writing: to learn a variety of writing styles with a focus on meaning and process over accuracy and production as a means to overall effective business communication.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		80 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	20 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

This course will be guided by a learner-centred curriculum and is supported by an independent study component completed by the students based on the selection and completion of self-directed goals. Peer, and group interaction and other interactive tasks will occur throughout each term.

*成績は下記該当項目を基に決定されます。
*クラス貢献度合計はコールドコールと授業内での挙手発言の合算値です。

講師用内規準拠 Method of Assessment	Weights
コールドコール Cold Call	0 %
授業内での挙手発言 Class Contribution	20 %
クラス貢献度合計 Class Contribution Total	20 %
予習レポート Preparation Report	20 %
小テスト Quizzes / Tests	30 %
シミュレーション成績 Simulation	0 %
ケース試験 Case Exam	0 %
最終レポート Final Report	0 %
期末試験 Final Exam	30 %
参加者による相互評価 Peer Assessment	0 %
合計 Total	100 %

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Quizzes/Tests refers to in-class tests & Homework (15%) + TOEIC (15%) = 30%

Preparation Report = SAC-related Work = 20%

Class Contribution = Face-to-face and Virtual Participation = Showing you want to learn English through your actions and regularly communicating (speaking and writing) actively in English both inside and outside of the classroom = 20%

Case (Case Preparation & Case Discussion) = 20%

Final Exam = 10%

【IMPORTANT NOTICE】
Students enrolled in SAC compulsory courses are all required to take the TOEIC exam 2 times at NUCB during the spring semester (May) and fall semester (November). Failing to do so, a student will receive Incomplete for his/her grade for the SAC compulsory course in the semester in which the student failed to take the TOEIC exam.

• John Hughes & Jon Naunton 「Business Result: Intermediate (Second Edition)」Oxford University Press（2017） 978-0-19-473886-6

Additional materials will be supplied by the instructor; other resources may be made available from tasks and materials in the SAC.

Students will be encouraged to participate in pair and group discussions, so that they will find it easy to speak in the whole class activities.

（実務経験 Work experience）

Refereed Articles

• (2023) Training High School Students on Summary Writing. The Bulletin of the Writing Research Group, JACET Kansai Chapter 15 1883-7840
• (2019) The Significance of Collaborative Learning in Foreign Language Education: A Sociocultural Perspective. Kyoto University Research Information Repository (KURENAI)
• (2017) Do Peer Reviews Help Improve Student Writing Abilities in an EFL High School Classroom?. TESOL Journal 8(2): 1056-7941
• (2017) Peer review in an EFL classroom: Impact on the improvement of student writing abilities. The Asian Journal of Applied Linguistics 4(1): 2308-6262