- COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course focuses on listening and speaking skills.
The listening part focuses not only on comprehension strategies but also on building and refining skills learned through previous courses. Seven listening lessons emphasize extensive note-taking from academic lectures on a variety of topics and critical thinking skills.
The speaking part focuses on students’ communication and language skills related to the types of meetings. Eight lessons of speaking cover the main stages of meetings: from preparation to decision-making and implementation a meeting to help learners not only develop their language skills. but also gain confidence in communicating in different situations. By the end of the course, students will acquire the skills necessary to play an active role in most types of meetings.
- COURSE CONTENTS AND SCHEDULE
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No |
Content |
Time Allocation |
Contribu-tion to CLO |
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Hour(s) on the class |
Essays, exercise, Assignments… |
Self-study with teacher’s tutorials |
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Lecture |
Practice, Seminar… |
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1 |
Course Introduction and Orientation |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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2 |
Unit 1: The Population |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12, 13, 15 |
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3 |
Unit 2: Immigration |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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4 |
Unit 3: Work in America |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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5 |
Unit 4: Family in the United States |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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6 |
Unit 5: Religion |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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7 |
Revision and Mid-term Listening Test |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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8 |
Unit 1: Why are we here? |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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9 |
Unit 2 Where do we start? |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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10 |
Unit 3: Where are we going? |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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11 |
Unit 4: Your views count |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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12 |
Unit 5: Keeping to the point |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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13 |
Unit 6: What’s the idea? |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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14 |
Unit 7: Making decisions |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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15 |
Unit 8: What’s next? |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
1,9,10,12,13, 15 |
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Total |
15 |
30 |
45 |
60 |
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- COURSE ASSESSMENT
– Score ladder: 10
– Type of assessment:
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Form |
Content |
Criteria |
CLO |
Proportion |
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Formative |
Attendance |
Class Attendance |
Students are expected to attend the class regularly and punctually. Absence must not be over than 25% lessons of the whole course. |
1,9,10,12,13,15 |
10% |
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Midterm Test |
Listening test – note taking skills |
Students will listen to a full academic lecture maximum of 10-minute in length and take notes during the listening time. Students will listen the recording three times then have 40 minutes to write the formal note. Assessment as follows: – Introduction: Topic and lecture outline: 3 points. – Body: Main ideas, supporting details: 5 points. – Development of the ideas: 2 points. |
1,9,10,12,13,15 |
30% |
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Summative |
Final test |
Oral presentations in group |
Performance test in group: – Contents of a meeting (clear objectives, logical order of ideas, positive atmosphere, clear structure and a clear ending): 3 points – Language skills: 2 points – Pronunciation, intonation, sentence stress: 3points Fulfillment of assigned role in a meeting: 2 points |
1,9,10,12,13,15 |
60% |
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Total: |
100% |
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