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 Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
| Owning Department/School:
| Academic Skills Centre |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Certificate (FHEQ level 4) |
| Period: |
Semester 2 |
| Assessment Summary:
| CW 100% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| 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. |
| Programme availability: |
EL10696 is a Generally Available Unit which is available to all students of the University (subject to the usual constraints) to take as an 'extra' unit which does not count towards a final award.English Language Centre
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