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English Language Centre, Unit Catalogue 2009/10


EL10695: Seminar skills and informal spoken English

Click here for further information Credits: 3
Click here for further information Level: Certificate
Click here for further information Period: Semester 1
Click here for further information Assessment: CW 100%
Click here for further informationSupplementary Assessment: Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Click here for further information Requisites:
Description: Aims:
The aim of this unit is to help students integrate into the academic and social environment and to raise the level of their degree work.

Learning Outcomes:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Take part in a seminar discussion
* Lead a discussion
* Identify weaknesses in their pronunciation and understand how to rectify them
* Adopt an appropriate register for different informal academic and social situations
* Interact confidently in informal academic and social situations.

Skills:
Having completed this unit students will be better able to:
* Deal with different academic and social situations.

Content:
Seminar skills
* Turntaking
* Active listening
* Expressing agreement and disagreement
* Expressing reservation
* Making a point
* Clarifying
* Problem solving
* Asking questions
Leading a discussion
* Presenting information
* Presenting an argument
* Summarising and paraphrasing
* Controlling a discussion
* Using a text
Pronunciation
* Intonation
* Chunking
* Stress
* Linking
Informal situations
* Social venues
* Initiating and making conversation
* Cultural variations
* Integrating with a group.
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