LANG471 – Introduction to Listening and Speaking
Module code
LANG471
Module title
Introduction to Listening and Speaking
Prescription
Students will be introduced to the listening and speaking skills required to communicate independently and effectively in familiar and some less familiar situations with fluency and flexibility in academic settings.
Programmes
- EL2104
NZQA Level
Level 4
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Learning Outcomes
- On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
LO1: Respond appropriately to main ideas and supporting details of moderately complex oral texts for academic purposes.
LO2: Participate effectively in sustained spoken discourses for academic purposes. - Content
- • Identify main ideas and relevant details of more complex speech
• Identify key words
• Recognise the organisation of an academic lecture
• Take structured notes, use common abbreviations and summarise a lecture
• Respond to extended speech (e.g. opinion or summary)
• Follow and engage in discussions with multiple participants on a range of academic topics
• Identify and use a range of turn-taking and negotiating strategies and language (e.g. interrupting, regaining ground, inviting others to speak, asking for and giving opinions, clarifying and seeking clarification)
• Identify and express feelings, opinions and reactions
• Speculate and make polite suggestions
• Support and exemplify arguments
• Respond appropriately to others’ ideas, opinions and suggestions
• Use appropriate style and register
• Expand, clarify and question
• Apply relevant conventions in spoken language
• Develop fluency, spontaneity and coherence
• Use sentence stress patterns and intonation to convey meaning - Assessment Criteria
- In order to pass a course, students must:
• Meet all course learning outcomes
• Pass all summative assessments
• Achieve all unit standards
• Attend at least 85% of scheduled classes (on campus) - Teaching and Learning Strategy
- May include:
• Experiential and task-based learning
• Online activities
• Group/collaborative projects Downloadable pre-recorded lectures
• Online forums and discussion groups
• Presentations with or without voice-over
• Worksheets and other directed tasks
• Demonstrations
• Role plays
• Cultural awareness activities - Learning and Teaching Resource
- • NMIT Moodle
• Online facilitator
• Scenarios and simulations (may be used)
• Online resources
• Library including resources
• E-textbook
