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 * Alice in Wonderland, special issues: **
 * Enhancement of TOEFL Speaking Skills **

This course focuses on an understanding and analyzing of the TOEFL speaking test patterns and introducing effective ways of improving one’s speaking ability and providing students’ with many practices and suggestions and guides. Each student will gain a lot in participating in the adventures.

**Course Objectives** Students (who are going to take part in TOEFL test and want to get speaking test skills enhanced) who successfully complete the course will be able to l get to know what TOEFL speaking test pattern is like l get familiar with the fields that the speaking test topic will cover l master some useful skills in taking notes while listening l organize one’s ideas more logically and swiftly l broaden one’s insight and eyesight of campus culture and American college life.

This course will be conducted using adventure-based learning strategies. The course is organized to maximize student--centered learning as it is loosely structured as a role playing game, generally following a legendary and fairytale theme --- Alice in Wonderland. Students are adventurers who are based in a Root Entry and who venture out on various paths radiating from that Root Entry. Each adventure keeps a record of the pursuits along these paths in a personal Log that includes a Discussion Tab where one can find that Adventure’s reflections.
 * Methodology **

Grades will be derived from experience points (XPs) generated by various activities achieved in the conquest of this course game. Students will be able to gain XPs from participating in pilgrimages (readings,or sound of course content) and quests (activities) that are recorded in their adventurer logs. XP values will be noted at each site. Player and Game Master work together to build XPs when good points are noted in the content analysis of a Pilgrimage or Quest.
 * Grades **

Special rules:


 * Pilgrimages are reading, and listening experiences that then are written up as a report or answers to the practises on the content acquired from the experience. Longer experiences require longer write-ups and generate the possibility of more XPs. The quality of the write-up matters in terms of what one has gained and understands.
 * Quests are typically speaking or listening-based speaking test experiences, where one is expected to learn and briefly take the test, then write out the answers.