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Course of Department: Foreign Languages and Literatures

Course title: Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening Skills (ELS) 

        Listening and speaking skills is very important in communicative languages, especially using these skills in academic. People have to be careful and spend a lot of attention in advanced speaking and listen with the process of criticism. Many of occupation in the present expect in the academic skill and absolutely listening and speaking is the basis of working in academic and professional jobs. These are the reasons that attract me to feel interest and decided to choose this course title to apply in my teaching.

        To apply this course in my teaching, it is suitable for students in the university because this can be the preparation course for student to develop effective speaking and listening skills and be able to apply the knowledge in their works when they graduated from the university.

        Many of teaching methods that I can apply to my teaching and I believe they can help students develop/ improve their skill such as speaking skill, teacher can provide the knowledge about the Introduction of pronunciation and Speaking strategy to lead students have the concept in their language development. The listening skills, teacher might be offer many of videos which is about people talking in the formal situation with the academic contents. In addition, there are many of the assignments or activities that teacher can provide for students such as teaching job interviews, impromptu debate, etc.  

This course is for advanced students who wish to build confidence and skills in spoken English. It focuses on the appropriate oral presentation of material in a variety of professional contexts: group discussions, classroom explanations and interactions, and theses/research proposals. It is valuable for those who intend to teach or lecture in English and includes language laboratory assignments. The goal of the workshop is to develop effective speaking and listening skills for academic and professional contexts.

Syllabus

The course provides practice in four main areas;

1.    The various kinds of oral interactions, including impromptu speaking, job interviews, research presentations, and dynamic teaching, for which MIT students/graduates will be responsible in their careers

2.    The idiomatic English associated with such communication

3.    Accurate pronunciation, stress and intonation patterns in English

4.    Critical listening skills for professional contexts.

This course has provided the useful handouts in assignments and study materials for downloading also.

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