LENG1157 English 07 - Speaking 1
Course Description
English 7 is the first skills-focused course of the Intermediate-Advanced Cycle in the Academic English Support Program (AESP). This course focuses on: language learning, aspects of spoken language, and academic communication. This topic is useful and interesting at this level because it helps the student face the most common academic problems they will have to solve on campus, and it allows them to understand why they have the difficulties they have in learning English, particularly in decoding and input. This increased knowledge will allow them to develop some learning and communication strategies to help them continue their English language learning outside class and after they leave the university.
Course Goal
After successfully completing this course, students can give effective spoken academic presentations that involve the analysis of fake news and logical fallacies in commercials and political discourse. They can also develop speaking skills to effectively plan a university event, reach an agreement and negotiate an outcome. In terms of pronunciation, students can recognize, produce and monitor their production of target sounds that affect intelligibility among native Spanish speakers. Furthermore, they can identify and produce certain word and sentence level aspects of English pronunciation that help them to improve their speaking comprehension. In terms of listening, students will develop a range of micro-listening skills to help them process individual sounds, syllables, words and longer sentences that are connected to the real-world academic spoken tasks performed on this course.
By the end of the course, students are expected to achieve the following proficiency levels according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR):
Reading: B2+
Writing: B1
Listening: B1+
Speaking: B1+
Grammar: B1
Periodo en el que se ofrece el curso
202610
Idioma en el que se ofrece el curso
Español
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