Listening and Speaking 3 ( LANE 234)

The Listening component of this course aims at further improving and consolidating listening skills. The student is trained to listen and comprehend authentic recorded speech samples, which are more advanced in content than the material covered in Level 3. The major part of the course incorporates recorded materials including numbers, figures, dates, statistics, and a variety of discourses. Some of the main objectives of the course are to train the students: 1) to extract the main ideas and supporting details to understand the
meaning of words as used in the text, 2) to recognize the tone and rhythm of the speaker’s speech, 3) to understand the meaning of grammatical usage and structure of discourse, and 4) to acquire the skill of note taking. The speaking course seeks to develop and foster the following skills:
1. Public Speaking skills
2. Team work
3. Gathering information and evidence.
4. Time management.
 
 
Skills:
Taking notes on specific information
Inferring main ideas
Identifying digressions
Identifying stated illocutionary forces
Inferring illocutionary forces
Following instructions
Selecting important information
Producing a written summary
Retention of information
Retrieval of information
Persuasive speech
Abstracts 
Quotations
Debates