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Level 5+

Listening and Speaking

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Course Overview

Level
Level 5+
Course Code
PT5-LS
Status
Active

Course Description

This course helps students improve their speaking fluency, learn and use new vocabulary, and increase listening capacity in order to function in academic and professional contexts.

Course Emphasis

  • Listening  40%
  • Speaking 40%
  • Vocabulary  10%
  • Pronunciation  10%

Course Books and Materials


Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Understands level-appropriate* texts.
    1. Understands main ideas.
    2. Understands major details.
    3. Understands salient minor details.
    4. Understands speaker's purpose.
    5. Understands speaker's point of view.
  2. Effectively implements appropriate listening strategies
    1. Connects content to background knowledge.
    2. Uses suprasegmental cues to guess meaning.
    3. Recognizes some organizational patterns.
    4. Makes inferences.
    5. Listens for specific information.
    6. Predicts what information will follow.
    7. Connects ideas between texts and among texts with some success.
  3. Produces level-appropriate* speech.
    1. Narrates/describes in all major time frames in general and some academic topics.
    2. Supports ideas and opinions with some facts, examples, and reasons.
    3. Adequately deals with some complications.
    4. Uses organizational patterns when speaking.
    5. Uses transitions to link related ideas.
    6. Connects ideas in extended speaking.
    7. Uses correct syntax.
    8. Uses correct stress in words and sentences.
    9. Pauses when appropriate.
    10. Uses correct intonation.
    11. Adapts speech to specific audiences and contexts.
  4. Effectively implements appropriate speaking strategies.
    1. Uses circumlocution to clarify meaning.
    2. Repeats or rephrases when appropriate.
  5. Acquires new vocabulary.
    1. Recognizes high frequency general and academic vocabulary.
    2. Understands high frequency general vocabulary.
    3. Uses high frequency general vocabulary.
    4. Uses context and background knowledge to infer meaning of unfamiliar words.
    5. Uses morphological cues to guess the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary.

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