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- Instructor(s)
- De Ferranti Hugh Barry Ziani
- Class Format
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- Media-enhanced courses
- Day/Period(Room No.)
- Thr5-6(H102)
- Group
- 3
- Course number
- LAE.E434
- Credits
- 1
- Academic year
- 2016
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- 2016/5/27
- Lecture notes updated
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- Language used
- English
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Course description and aims
“Oral Expression in English” courses are devoted to improving students’ skills in speaking. Apart from the context of giving presentations, effective speaking also involves effective listening, so the classwork and homework in these courses require students engaged in speech and listening exercises.
Oral Expression in English 16 continues Oral Expression in English 15's focus on the improvement of oral skills while extending discussions to a broader range of topics. The course requires all students to prepare short presentations on assigned weekly topics as well as longer individual presentations.
Student learning outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be able to speak for several minutes alone or in dialogues on a range of topics, while being mindful of the particular problems of pronunciation to which their attentions are directed during the quarter.
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 communication skills in talking about (non-research related) topics and issues that they are sure to be asked by foreigners here at Tokyo Tech 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 works 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 oral skills placement tests administered in the first few sessions. More formal, longer (ca.15-minute including Q and A) presentations will be required in the final two classe of the course.
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 | suggestions for topics and discussion of relative merits |
| Class 2 | Topic 1 | vocabulary and expression concerning why history is important (or why it is not!) |
| Class 3 | Topic 2 | vocabulary and expression concerning climate change and what each individual could do to alleviate it |
| Class 4 | Topic 3 | vocabulary and expression concerning "inter- or multi-cultural Japan" |
| Class 5 | Topic 4 | vocabulary and expression concerning nationalism in C21st Japan and/or in their own home country |
| Class 6 | Topic 5 | vocabulary and expression concerning the Japanese traditional artform that they like (or dislike!) most |
| 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)
none
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Readings related to particular topics may be assigned in class.
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.E433 ： Oral Expression in English 15
Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)
none
Other
It is recommended that students take this course in sequence with LAE.E433.
Attendance at the first class is compulsory for students planning to take this course.
