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- Instructor(s)
- De Ferranti Hugh Barry Ziani
- Class Format
- Exercise
- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Mon5-6(H102)
- Group
- 1
- Course number
- LAE.E433
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 3Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/4/27
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- English
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Course description and aims
All of the “Oral Expression in English” courses are devoted to improving students' skills in speaking. Apart from making presentations, effective speaking also involves effective listening, so the classwork and homework in these courses require that students carry out both interactive speech and get engaged in listening exercises.
As a graduate-level elective course, Oral Expression in English 15 focuses on the improvement of oral communication skills – in other words, speaking with confidence and in such a way as to have them understood, and active participation in conversations with a range of topics. The course requires all students to prepare a short presentation on a weekly assigned topics, as well as a longer individual presentation.
Student learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to speak for several minutes by themselves or in dialogues on a range of topics, paying attention to their own pronunciation issues.
Keywords
speaking, listening,oral communication, interactive
Competencies that will be developed
| Specialist skills | ✔ Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Class flow
While there is no textbook, study materials from a range of English pedagogy sources (including newspaper and internet articles) are made use of to encourage and assist students in developing their communicative abilities in talking about (non-research related) topics and issues that they are sure to be asked about by foreigners here at Titech or when they spend time overseas. Oral skills include pronunciation and intonation, of course, so these will be consistently corrected, in part through recording individual and/or group work for review purposes. Visual illustrations (Powerpoint etc.) may be used for the formal presentations, but are not compulsory. Some weekly presentations will be done in matched pairs, to be formed on the basis of an oral skills placement test administered in the first few sessions. A more formal, longer (ca.15-minute including Q and A) presentation will be required in the final two sessions of the class.
Course schedule/Required learning
| Course schedule | Required learning | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction and group discussion for development of a discussion topics list according to class members’ areas of interest | suggestion of topics and discussion of relative merits |
| Class 2 | Topic 1 | vocabulary and expression concerning things liked and disliked about a particular country or society |
| Class 3 | Topic | vocabulary and expression concerning technology and conflict |
| Class 4 | Topic 3 | vocabulary and expression concerning technology and the environment |
| Class 5 | Topic 4 | vocabulary and expression concerning technology and the arts |
| Class 6 | Topic 5 | vocabulary and expression concerning ideas of “happiness” in a given C21st society |
| Class 7 | Formal presentations 1 | individual presentations for ca.8-10 minutes followed by at least 5 minutes of questions and feedback from fellow students |
| Class 8 | Formal presentations 2 | individual presentations for ca.8-10 minutes followed by at least 5 minutes of questions and feedback from fellow students |
Textbook(s)
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Reference books, course materials, etc.
There may be occasional assigned reading materials relating to weekly topics
Assessment criteria and methods
weekly participation in both presentation and discussion (50%); a final graded individual presentation to the class (30%); and a minimum 800-word written essay for submission (20%)
Related courses
- LAE.E434 ： Oral Expression in English 16
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
none
Other
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with LAE.E434.
Attendance at the first class is compulsory for students planning to take this course.
