This course is designed to develop students’ English listening and speaking competences. It should benefit students’ listening comprehension and overall spoken production individually and/or in interaction in academic and social contexts as well as in day-to-day situations. This course incorporates level-appropriate listening and speaking materials, strategies and practice to aid in students' comprehension and oral communication. Students will develop their listening skills through the use of authentic listening tasks in a wide range of academic situations. They will listen actively to talks on a variety of lengths and at different rates of delivery. They will listen to synthesize information received from specific listening tasks and discussions. They will also identify and develop their note-taking abilities and enlarge their vocabulary repertoire. Students will improve their speaking ability in terms of fluency, accuracy and comprehensibility. Students’ presentation skills will be honed and they will be able to give an effective presentation and receive feedback on their performance.
Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify meaning of unfamiliar words by using the context
- Understand the organizational structure of a talk
- Follow an argument or the sequence of events in a story, by focusing on common logical connectors (e.g. however, because) and temporal connectors
- Assign literal and intended meanings to text(s)
- Interact with an interlocutor(s), showing interest and asking pertinent questions, clarifications, etc.