ESL 005B - Advanced Listening, Viewing, and Speaking ISemester Hours: 0
Fall, Spring, Summer
This workshop-style course is student-centered and aims to maximize student opportunities to practice and improve their speaking and listening skills. The course is designed for non-native English-speaking students to polish and enhance their communicative skills in English and to help them succeed in their academic, professional, and social pursuits. The primary goals of the course are the development of students’ interpretive listening and viewing skills as well as the improvement of their interpersonal and presentational speaking skills in paragraph-length discourse, with a focus on the language functions of narration and description in all time frames in content areas including current events and other concrete (non-abstract) topics. The class will help students develop effective strategies for listening to lectures, participating in classroom and general academic discourse, and giving presentations. In addition, the course provides a focus on pronunciation training and opportunities for oral fluency practice.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Intermediate-high proficiency in listening and speaking (level 4) or placement into level 5 by an appropriate test score.
Repeatable once, not for credit.
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