LISTENING –SPEAKING 3
Course Title
Course Code
Credit
Equivalent Course
Prerequisite
Coordinator
Program Level
Instruction Language
Applicable for TESOL Program
Requirement in TESOL Program
Semester in TESOL Program
Applicable for Translation & Interpretation Program
Requirement in Translation & Interpretation Program
Semester in Translation & Interpretation Program
Overview
This course is designed to help English majors at HCMUTE progress their listening and speaking skill to the upper-intermediate level (equivalent to B1+ - CEFR). It provides students with opportunities to enhance their academic oral communication skills, such as listening and responding to the authentic broadcasts, short lectures, and long conversations, and taking good notes. They then discuss or debate the issues mentioned in the listening tasks. Besides, an introduction to public speaking is included, with a focus on speaking to inform, which helps develop students’ confidence in delivering effective informative speech. Through task-based activities and learner-centered instructions, students can also develop and reinforce many other skills, such as making inferences, analyzing, synthesizing, note-taking, problem-solving, personalizing, distinguishing languages, test-taking, team working, critical thinking, and foreign language learning strategies. Equipped with these, students are able to succeed in learning at university as well as in their future life. Moreover, a wide range of topics are employed to build students’ constructive and selective attitudes towards social, economic and academic values.
Objectives
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Goals |
Goal Description |
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G1 |
Background knowledge and vocabulary on less familiar academic, social science topics; professional knowledge of vocal patterns, pre and post listening strategies, communication strategies, and linguistic functions at upper intermediate level |
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G2 |
Listening and communication skills in lesser-known academic, social science disciplines at upper intermediate level; teamwork skills and active sense of learning and working |
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G3 |
Presentation skills, effective teamwork skills |
Learning Outcomes
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Learning Outcomes |
Description |
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G1 |
Extend the basic knowledge of the social sciences and the humanities and natural sciences through the content of listening and speaking practices Differentiate listening and communication strategies at upper intermediate level Explain the vocabulary of lesser-known and scholarly social-science subjects at the upper intermediate level for listening comprehension and communication Identify common pronunciation patterns at upper intermediate level |
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G2 |
Apply listening strategies (pre-listening, listening to main ideas, details, notes, summaries) at upper intermediate level Utilize communication tactics, vocabulary related to the lesser-known and academic social-science topic to communicate effectively at upper intermediate level Intelligibly pronounce, develop intonation - tones in spoken practice and in real-world communication at upper intermediate level Develop initiative in learning and working |
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G3 |
Strengthen presentation skills and confidence in public speaking Strengthen teamwork skills |
Materials
Textbook
Solorzano, H. S., & Schmidt, J. P. L. (2009). Northstar 3 Listening and Speaking (3rd ed.). New York: Pearson-Longman.
Reference
Freire, R., & Jones, T. (2011). Q: Skills for Success 4 Listening and Speaking. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Students are assessed for their performance in the following components.
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Percentage |
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Ongoing assessment |
50% |
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Listening and Speaking assignments |
20% |
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Group presentation |
10% |
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Listening test |
10% |
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Speaking test |
10% |
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Final assessment |
50% |
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