FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING

Catalog description

This is a course exclusively designed to intensively develop listening and speaking skills. Participants will enhance public speaking engaging in activities enabling them to comprehend and critically analyze information from a myriad of topics related to current events of social situations. The latter is developed through a series of performance tasks that will enable students to strengthen and increase oral fluency and accuracy. Participants will achieve these skills through oral presentations, speeches, role-playing, group discussions, and debates. Research activities will be developed through the integration of technology in individual, pair and/or group work.