LANG513 – Developing Listening and Speaking
Module code
LANG513
Module title
Developing Listening and Speaking
Prescription
Students will develop the listening and speaking skills required to communicate independently and effectively in a wide range of familiar and unfamiliar situations with fluency and flexibility in academic contexts.
Programmes
- EL2105
NZQA Level
Level 5
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 an extended complex dialogue of an academic nature.
LO2: Participate effectively in extended spoken discourse in English for academic purposes. - Content
- • Follow and engage in complex discussions with multiple participants on a range of academic topics
• Justify and develop ideas and opinions
• Respond to others’ opinions (e.g. expressing doubt or objections, offering counter-arguments, conceding)
• Identify and use a range of turn-taking and negotiating strategies and language (e.g. persuading, considering alternative views, paraphrasing, summarising)
• Lead a discussion (e.g. setting the agenda, managing time and participation of others, getting back on track, summarising and concluding)
• Apply critical thinking skills
• Use hedging/cautious language
• Use appropriate discourse markers
• Use a range of speech features to convey meaning (e.g. word and sentence stress, pausing, intonation) - Assessment Criteria
- In order to pass a course, students must:
• Meet all course learning outcomes
• Pass all summative assessments
• 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
- • Moodle
• Online facilitator
• Scenarios and simulations (may be used)
• Online resources
• Library including resources
• E-textbook
