University of Delaware - ELI Japan Liaison

プログラム

集中英語プログラム
アメリカ文化から学ぶ英語コース Culture Track (Level IV〜VI)

このコースの生徒は、印刷物、映画、音楽、ニュース番組を通して、色々な角度からアメリカ社会に触れながら、同時に英語力もつけていきます。クラスによっては、地域の奉仕団体でボランティア活動を行なったり、独自に新聞を発行したりもします。 なお、このコースは Level IV 以上から履修することができます。Level I から Level III までは、一般英語コースで基礎を習得することになります。

Level VI English Through Music English Through the 1960's English Through the News ↑ Level V English Through Music English Through the 1960's English Through the News ↑↑↑ Level IV English Through Music English Through the 1960's English Through the News ↑↑↑↑ Level III General English ↑↑↑↑↑ Level II General English ↑↑↑↑↑↑ Level I General English

講義概要[英文]

• English Through Music - Listening/Speaking: (Levels IV, V, VI)
  This class uses the context of American popular music to focus on improving students' listening comprehension and intelligibility skills, with particular emphasis on rhythm and stress patterns. Students can also expect to significantly increase their understanding of American culture and idiomatic expressions. Students who are interested in the class should enjoy singing and listening to a wide variety of music styles.

• English Through The 1960's - Listening/Speaking:
  The era of the 1960s was perhaps the most turbulent, controversial, and confusing decade of the 20th century. If you want to understand mainstream culture and American society in the 1990s, you need a crash course in the sixties. This class examines a number of important topics and themes, including:

  • An overview of the cultural backdrop of the 50s in which the "seeds" of the 60s were sown;
  • The civil rights movement which sought true equality for American blacks;
  • US involvement in the Vietnam War and the anti-war backlash stateside;
  • Hippies, rock-n-roll, and the counterculture;
  • Radical politics; and
  • The assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King

• English Through The News - Listening/Speaking: (Levels IV, V)
  This course uses radio and television news broadcasts to develop students' listening comprehension of rapid native speech and complex discourse. Students will work on their spoken English skills through class discussion of current events. Oral intelligibility instruction focuses on pronunciation, suprasegmentals, and fluency.