Adv Listen, Spkng/Pronun

Catalog description

This course builds students' confidence and ability in listening and speaking, emphasizing fluency, natural pronunciation, and idiomatic expressions. Students listen to authentic English-language materials such as Youtube videos, TED Talks or similar professional presentations on academic topics, clips from television shows, songs, and films, and other real-life listening material. Pronunciation focuses on stress, intonation, suprasegmental linking, and comprehensibility. Students work individually and in groups on a variety of projects such as job interviews, illustrated presentations, pitching a business idea, mock trial, and panel discussions or debates.