Listening and Speaking 3 ( LANE 234)

The Listening component of this course aims at further improving and consolidating listening skills. The student is trained to listen and comprehend authentic recorded speech samples, which are more advanced in content than the material covered in Level 3. The major part of the course incorporates recorded materials including numbers, figures, dates, statistics, and a variety of discourses. Some of the main objectives of the course are to train the students: 1) to extract the main ideas and supporting details to understand the

meaning of words as used in the text, 2) to recognize the tone and rhythm of the speaker’s speech, 3) to understand the meaning of grammatical usage and structure of discourse, and 4) to acquire the skill of note taking. The speaking course seeks to develop and foster the following skills:

1. Public Speaking skills

2. Team work

3. Gathering information and evidence.

4. Time management.

 

 

Skills:

Taking notes on specific information

Inferring main ideas

Identifying digressions

Identifying stated illocutionary forces

Inferring illocutionary forces

Following instructions

Selecting important information

Producing a written summary

Retention of information

Retrieval of information

Persuasive speech

Abstracts 

Quotations

Debates