ESL 088CM - Oral Communication for Non-Native Speakers of English IV

4 Credits, 4 Contact Hours
4 lecture periods 0 lab periods

Advanced-level academic communication skills for increased fluency and comprehension. Includes listening comprehension and retention, speaking and oral presentations, communicative appropriateness, and critical thinking skills.

Prerequisite(s): Placement into ESL 088CM; or completion ESL 080CM or ESL 085CM with a C or better.
Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in an ESL Reading and Vocabulary course (RV) and an ESL Writing and Grammar course (WG) according to previous course completion or ESL assessment test score.
Information: Prerequisites may be waived with consent of instructor. See an ESL instructor for details.

Course Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate comprehension of oral passages at the advanced-level.
Demonstrate appropriate speaking skills at the advanced-level.

Performance Objectives:

Take notes from academic lectures using advanced listening and note-taking skills.
Use critical thinking skills to discuss and analyze oral academic materials.
Plan, organize, and present comprehensible academic presentations.
Deduce word meanings from context, structural and grammatical clue, and integrate academic vocabulary and collocations into discussion and presentations.

Outline:

Listening Comprehension and Retention

Note taking strategies
Pre-listening tasks
Identify and demonstrate comprehension of gist, general ideas, and specific information in academic passages
Use context and grammatical clues to aid comprehension
Summarize/retell

Speaking and Oral Presentations

Academic presentation functions

Oral citations
Audio visual aids
Non-verbal communication
Response to questions

Fluency and intelligibility within communicative contexts

Communicative Appropriateness

Register
Non-verbal communication

Critical Thinking Skills

Make predictions
Understand and draw inferences and conclusions
Differentiate between facts and opinions

Effective Term:
Full Academic Year 2020/2021