Listening & Speaking 1
114 Najd
Listening and Speaking
Description
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Course number & Code |
Najd 114 |
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Course title |
Listening and Speaking |
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Contact hours |
3 |
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Prerequisite: |
Preparatory year |
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Textbook |
INTERACTIONS 2 LISTENING/SPEAKING / Middle East Diamond Edition |
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Chapters to be covered |
6
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Teacher |
Sarah Al-Dawood |
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Office Location |
Bld/4 Room-22 |
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My Website |
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Office Hours |
Sun. 10-12, Mon.9-10 & Thurs. 10-11 |
Listening
Content and objectives
The listening component of this course is designed for intermediate students.
Materials used here are longer and require some sophisticated skills that were
introduced at the preparatory level. The passages grammatical and semantic structures are
elaborate. The students are taught the importance of the mechanics of speech, i.e.
intonation, rhetoric, pitch, and their effects on meaning assignment. The emphasis is
on note-taking and understanding contextual clues. Because the listening course is
meant for prospective novice interpreters and translators, students are trained to pay
attention to what they listen to, to practice quick storage of language and content in
memory, and to exhibit speed in message retrieval.
Skills
The listening part of the course seeks to develop and foster the following skills:
· Taking notes on specific information
· Inferring main ideas
· Identifying stated illocutionary forces
· Inferring illocutionary forces
· Following instructions
· Writing an outline
· Producing a summary
· Retention of information
· Retrieval of information
Speaking
Content and objectives
For the speaking part of this course the following objectives are to be achieved:
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-An awareness of formal / informal language and practice at choosing appropriate language for different situations accepting and refusing invitations, understand and use expressions of locations in contexts, open and close phone conversations, request and give advice, apologize and reconcile, ask for help…etc. . -The awareness that informal spoken language is less complex than written language. It uses shorter sentences, is less organized and uses more 'vague' or non-specific language. -To be competent at either ‘message-oriented’ or transactional language and interactional language, language for maintaining social relationships. To be taught patterns of real interaction like talking about abilities, recognizing expressions of advice, giving opinion, politely interrupting an action or a speaker...etc -To have intelligible pronunciation and be able to cope with streams of speech. -Rehearsal time. By giving students guided preparation / rehearsal time they are more likely to use a wider range of language in a spoken task in addition to making presentations using projectors and visual aids that support their topics. -The ability to participate in classrooms discussions. -Learn to give short presentations about a novel/play to discuss the plot, theme, characters, or setting.
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Skills:
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- Using some very brief written notes when speaking - Managing to maintain one’s audience interested - Respecting the principles of politeness and using appropriate politeness formulae - Developing an argument - Using appropriate paralinguistic expressions while speaking - Making requests, answering requests - Apologizing, refusing, complaining - Contributing to opening and closing moves in exchanges - Making invitations and declining invitations
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· Marks Distribution:
-First In-Term=30 (15 for each skill)
-Second In-Term=30 (15 for each skill)
-Final exam = 40 (20 for each skill)
-Total = 100
-Passing mark = 60
FMarks will be deducted for language mistakes (spelling, grammatical, and vocabulary
mistakes).
| Week | Gregorian | Hijri | Lesson |
| 1 | Sun., Sep. 18 |
17/12/1437 |  Registration week (dropping/adding courses) – National Day: Sat., Sep. 24 |
| 2 | Sun., Sep. 25 |
24/12/1437 | Chapter one: Education and Student Life Part 1+2 |
| 3 | Sun., Oct. 2 |
1/1/1438 | Chapter one: Education and Student Life Part 3+4 |
| 4 | Sun., Oct. 9 |
8/1/1438 | Chapter Two: City Life Part 1+ 2 |
| 5 | Tues., Oct. 16 |
15/1/1438 | Chapter Two: City Life Part 3+ 4 |
| 6 | Sun., Oct. 23 |
22/1/1438 | Chapter Three: Business and Money Part 1+ 2 +3 |
| 7 | Sun., Oct. 30 |
29/1/1438 | Chapter Three: Business and Money Part 4 Chapter Four: Jobs and Professions Part 1+ 2 |
| 8 | Sun., Nov. 6 |
6/2/1438 | First In-term (Speaking) First In-term (Listening) |
| MID-SEMESTER BREAK | |||
| 9 | Sun., Nov. 20 |
20/2/1438 | Chapter Four: Jobs and Professions Part 3 + 4 |
| 10 | Sun., Nov. 27 |
27/2/1438 | Chapter Five: Life Styles Around the world Part 1 + 2 |
| 11 | Sun., Dec. 4 |
5/3/1438 | Chapter Five: Life Styles Around the world Part 3 + 4 |
| 12 | Sun., Dec. 11 |
12/3/1438 | Chapter Six: Global Connections Part 1+ 2 |
| 13 | Sun., Dec. 18 |
19/3/1438 | Second In-term (Speaking) Second In-term (Listening) |
| 14 | Sun., Dec. 25 |
26/3/1438 | Chapter Six: Global Connections Part 3 + 4 |
| 15 | Sun., Jan. 1 |
3/4/1438 | COLT’S ORAL EXAMS WEEK |
| Sun., Jan. 8 – Mon., Jan. 23 | EXAMS |