Listening & Speaking 1 EENG 2303

Course description:

In this course, students are introduced to the basic strategies of listening and speaking. Pieces of social and transactional discourse are introduced to students to raise their awareness of mechanics, functions, social and cultural norms. English majors are expected to experience varied listening and speaking tasks that help equip them with a broad English vocabulary, idioms and structures. Students are also expected to participate in discussing recent daily matters that help enhance their oral proficiency skills. Pair work and group work are highly focused to help students express themselves fluently. 

Course Aims:

Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
  • To explicitly teach listening and speaking strategies.
  • To maximize students’ comprehension of aural input.
  • To expose students to authentic materials and types of listening situations they will need outside the classroom.
  • To help students develop communicative efficiency in speaking.
  • To encourage students to talk about recent daily matters.
  • To assist students’recognize connected speech and understand gist in listening, pronunciation and intonation in speaking.

Course outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes:
  • Understand who is speaking to whom, in what circumstances, about what, and for what reason.
  • Produce grammatically correct and logically connected sentences that are appropriate to specific contexts.
  • Take notes about the content of specific listening texts.
  •  Paraphrase and summarize the content of listening texts. 
  • Use formal and informal different English language stylesin suitable situations.
  • Act different dialogues and conversations.
  • Use English idioms and proverbs accurately.