<p> This course is designed to introduce English spoken texts to freshmen through light materials like songs, short story, video clips, and short movies. The texts presented are in sentences, and in dialogs and monologs. The purpose is to familiarize students with English sounds and their attributes (phonological, grammatical, lexical, and cultural) which influence words’ meanings. The course covers sound discrimination and information identification in either generic or specific contexts. It is expected that by the end of the course, the students are familiar with English sounds and mentally ready to listen to more complicated materials </p>
