ENL 031S Intermediate Speaking 1

Lecture Hours: 3
Credits: 3

Develops speaking skills for everyday situations, the workplace, and the academic environment. Designed for intermediate non-native speakers of English.

Prerequisite: Completion of assessment and orientation procedures; successful completion of XELL 0722S; or placement by ESL program specialists.
Student Learning Outcomes:

Draw from a range of strategies to understand, organize, and convey some complex information and ideas face-to-face and in diverse media, as an individual or group.
Comprehend and respond to a variety of medium-length oral communications with diverse partners.
Select from a range of learning strategies to reinforce or independently develop speaking skills.
Use strategies to address/identify weaknesses in producing English sounds that interfere with communication.
Recognize and produce stress, intonation, and rhythm as they are used in common spoken English in face-to-face interactions and from diverse media.
Draw on prior knowledge about language, culture and context to anticipate and prepare for interactions.
Use strategies to build, understand, and use vocabulary related to a broad range of general and some specialized career-specific and/or academic topics.
Use technology to accomplish required tasks.

Content Outline

Speaking Strategies
- Clarify meaning
- Planning a structured presentation, including outlines, notecards, and visuals
- Paraphrase
- Summarize main ideas
Speaking Functions for achieving course outcomes
Speaking contexts
- Give presentations
- Participate in small and large group discussions
- Conduct and report on interviews and surveys
Pronunciation
- Idengity and address prounuciation challenges
- Use thought groups, phonemes, intonation, and stress patterns
Topics and vocabulary for achieving course outcomes
Grammar as appropriate to achieving course outcomes
Learning to Learn
- Organize, maintain, and use class information, notes, handouts, and homework.
- Interact appropriately in the classroom and follow course expectations
- Use campus resources: library, language lab, etc…
- Identify and set learning goals