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Dec 30, 2024
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LS 400 - Academic Listening and Speaking IV0 lecture hours 0 lab hours 0 credits
Course Description
Academic Listening and Speaking IV is the last in a four-course sequence designed to further develop needed skills in academic listening, speaking, vocabulary use, and critical thinking, as well as deliver academic strategies to prepare students to be successful in a university setting. Skills and strategies are delivered through content-based instruction with topics including anthropology, economics, literature, and ecology. This course enhances students’ understanding of American culture and university life by engaging them in listening to everyday conversations on a college campus as well as authentic academic lectures. They will work to uncover the “mechanics” of speaking and listening by analyzing pronunciation and intonation patterns, as well as common English phrases. Students will actively take place in various types of discourse in class, such as formal and informal small group discussions and presentations. They will also participate in events on campus and in the community where they will further develop their speaking and listening skills. This course is required for program completion. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
Academic Listening:
- Listen for topics, subtopics, and main ideas
- Listen for details, supporting statistics, quoted material, and points of greater importance
- Listen for causes, effects, and solutions to problems
- Understand idioms and slang
- Take careful lecture notes
Academic Speaking:
- Manage a conversation
- Ask for confirmation
- Deliver a clearly organized research presentation
- Narrate a story
- Clearly pronounce key vowel and consonant sounds
Prerequisites by Topic
Coordinator
Katherine Toske
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