English is the global language and is important in education, interpersonal relations and business. Using active learning methodology, the ADVANCED ENGLISH 700 course is designed to help students develop the core English language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking to be successful in further academic study and workplaces. By actively participating in class activities, students will have the confidence and ability to strengthen their 'Frontier Spirit' and bridge the gap between New Asia and the rest of the world.

This advanced English language course provides students with complex readings and listening activities that emphasize the foundational English learnt 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 learnt 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 repeated and presented in individual and pair work formats, and homework and individual study components for active learning through online modules are also woven throughout the course. This is a SAC compulsory subject.

Students will be able to develop and improve their core English language skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking by actively participating in class activities and completing all written homework and assignments.

*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。

o Grammar: to review the grammar learnt in the previous academic year, to use the grammar of each week in class activities.
o Reading: to improve reading fluency, and to learn and use critical reading strategies.
o Listening: to learn and use critical listening strategies to identify key facts, to search for and recognize information about people, places, things and events from an audio sample.
o Writing: write learning various writing styles, with a focus on complex sentences.

教育手法 Teaching Method		% of Course Time
インプット型 Traditional		60 %
参加者中心型 Participant-Centered Learning	ケースメソッド Case Method	40 %
	フィールドメソッド Field Method	0 %
合計 Total		100 %

This course will be guided by a lecture, which will be supported by independent study completed by the students. The independent study will include homework assigned on Google Classroom and from the course materials available on the online platform of the Business Result textbook. Group and peer interaction will occur through the semester, which will be evaluated and supported with feedback from the instructor.

*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 %

定期試験　Final Exam

あり

評価の留意事項　Notes on Evaluation Criteria

Preparation Report = Weekly SAC writing Activities

Quizzes / Tests = May TOEIC Test score + Class writing activities

For SAC compulsory classes, students are required to study over 20 hours during the semester at SAC in the Central Information Center. Additionally, 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). Failure 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 and Jon Naunton「Business Result Intermediate」Oxford University Press （2017）978-0-19-473886-6

Additional resource readings will be posted on Google Classroom.

Teaching this course for the first time.

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• (2025) Japan's militarization: from reactive to proactive antimilitarist strategic culture. RSIS Theses
• (2024) Civil-Military Relations and Antimilitarism in Japan After the End of the Cold War. International Journal of Military History and Historiography Advance Articles 2468-3302