XESS 0516E ESL Academic Listening and Speaking Level E

High-Intermediate to Low-Advanced. This course is designed to prepare students for listening and speaking in academic and formal settings.

Credits

5 hours

Course Learning Outcomes

Students will participate in moderate-length conversations, and communicate main ideas and related details in oral presentations about a variety of general, academic and/or workplace topics so others can understand. Students will use an increasingly wide range of academic and content-specific words and phrases, complex phrases and clauses, simple, compound and complex sentences and transitions to link ideas in speech. Students will also analyze the reasoning in persuasive spoken texts, understand spoken language with varying ease and accuracy, and speak with growing confidence and varied ease, accuracy, and control of grammar and vocabulary.