IELP 086 - IELP Listening and Speaking III

Credits: 5
LEC hours per week: 5
This is an advanced Listening and Speaking course for non-native speakers of English in Level 5 of the Intensive English Language Program (IELP). This course is designed to prepare students for the listening and speaking skills that are typical in an American college classroom. Students will improve discussion, presentation, pronunciation, and speaking fluency as well as comprehension and critical thinking through speaking. Students will listen to and speak about academic topics in order to develop listening competence and will learn listening strategies by taking notes during college lectures, asking questions, working with classmates, and taking tests and quizzes. This course is in accordance with College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education, Level D.
Course Outcomes:

Synthesize relevant ideas/information in conjunction with others to support an original idea.
Interpret communication by identifying relationships among ideas and drawing inferences about the message and attitude intended by the communication.
Apply critical thinking skills in conversation.
Demonstrate increased conversational fluency and range of expressions.
Compose communications that present claims and findings, emphasizing salient points in a focused, coherent manner with relevant evidence, valid reasoning, and specific details.
Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentation s to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest.
Identify main ideas, important details, and key words of a lecture, presentation, listening, or conversation.
Use appropriate eye contact and gestures, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation.
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal and informal English when appropriate.
Apply techniques to identify and correct individual pronunciation issues.
Use the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

Course Topics:

Notetaking
Discussions and debates
Presentations
Creating short videos using Flipgrid
Finding listenings independently
Lectures/videos
Pronunciation