Listening & Speaking 2 EENG 2308

Course description:

This course focuses on developing students’ academic listening and speaking skills in English. In this course, students work on building vocabulary, conversation, language, pronunciation, note-taking, presentation, and discussion skills. The course concentrates on preparing students for the listening and speaking needed in college classroom, daily life, and work field. Students are asked to consolidate their class work, to read, watch or listen to material in English, to prepare exercises and activities for the class. For teaching this course, the text book -Speak Now- and some adapted supplementary material are used in class that are linked to the topic areas studied. Audio and visual tools, flash cards, games, and other techniques are used to deliver listening input and stimulate speaking output.

Course Aims:

Course seeks to enable students to achieve the following objectives:
  • To enhance students’ listening, speaking and communication strategies.
  • To take notes, paraphrase, and summarize a short passage on a familiar topic.
  • To understand and use common English phrases.
  • To speak with confidence by using the target language as they accomplish defined tasks.
  • To communicate with native English speakers in a reasonably appropriate register, particularly in regard to asking questions.
  • To overcome speaking anxiety by presenting different topics in front of class.
  • To participate in a class discussion.
  • To understand the main points of a TV newscast or television program and retell them with reasonable accuracy.

Course outcomes:

Intended Learning Outcomes:
  • Use current proficiency to the fullest to be clearly understood. 
  • Handle communicative situations they may encounter beyond the classroom.
  • Practice the full repertoire of listening and speaking strategies for authentic tasks.
  • Understand and apply specific information from the listening input. 
  • Use English in Professional and academic environment. 
  • Listen to and comprehend spoken language. 
  • Conduct formal  interviews with native speakers. 
  • Give short, formal presentations. 
  • Students are expected to spend time practicing listening and speaking outside the class to develop expertise in these two skills.