Course Title

LISTENING –SPEAKING 3

Course Code

LISP230335

Credit

3

Program Level

Instruction Language

Applicable for TESOL Program

Requirement in TESOL Program

Semester in TESOL Program

3

Applicable for Translation & Interpretation Program

Requirement in Translation & Interpretation Program

Semester in Translation & Interpretation Program

3

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

Goals

 Goal Description 

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

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

G3

Presentation skills, effective teamwork skills

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Description

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

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

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.

 

Percentage

Ongoing assessment

50%

Listening and Speaking assignments

20%

Group presentation

10%

Listening test

10%

Speaking test

10%

Final assessment

50%