Taiwan's college students' communicative English ability is gradually declining. However, many universities only offer a one-year Freshman English course for the students. When encountering the following three obstacles of 1) limited class hours, 2) a large class, and 3) required instruction of the four language learning skills of ”listening, speaking, reading, and writing,” the attempt to improve students' communicative English has become a difficult task. This research project combined the multi-method teaching strategies of ”English Only, E-Learning Platform, and Teaching Assistant” to form a teaching research project and designed a teaching method. With financial assistance from the Ministry of Education's ”Teaching Excellence Project,” this research project utilized the teaching method for one year in the hopes of finding a solution to the problem. To find out more about the views and feedbacks of students' learning, this research project applied both quantitative research which involved student learning questionnaires, and qualitative research which involved TA open-ended teaching questionnaires, taped face-face interviews, etc. This research project found that the application of this multi-method of ”English Only, E-Learning Platform, and Teaching Assistant” to the Freshman English class in order to improve students' communicative ability was very successful. According to the conducted surveys, 80% of students claimed that they had made progress with their communicative English ability. The positive result of this teaching research project might provide language teachers with a different perspective for future language teaching.
