ELB600 Advanced Academic Listening and Speaking (3 cr.)

The course, designed for non-native English speakers with advanced language proficiencies, assists students in acquiring academic oral communicative competencies required for effective and successful graduate-level course participation.  The course explores discipline-specific discourse conventions focusing on the skills of listening, speaking, and pronunciation.  Course topics include lecture comprehension; small-group and whole-class discussions; formal oral presentations; stress, rhythm, and intonation patterns; as well as context based rhetorical and grammatical structures.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Identify main ideas and details of academic lectures.
2. Use effective listening and speaking practices within small-group and whole-class discussions.
3. Prepare and deliver academic presentations.
4. Employ English pronunciation techniques minimizing listeners’ comprehension efforts.
5. Demonstrate ability to adapt vocabulary and grammar appropriately to genre and audience.