Advanced Core Fluency A

Catalog description

This course is an advanced level (CEFR B2 to B2+) listening and speaking course for English learners. The learning outcomes for listening focus on the comprehension of extended academic discourse with an emphasis on academic listening skills such as listening for details (e.g., examples, statistics) distinguishing relevant information from digressions and asides in longer lectures; effective notetaking; and identifying key vocabulary used in the academic discourse in a variety of disciplines. The learning outcomes for speaking target advanced academic language functions (e.g., summarizing, synthesizing); productive discussion strategies (e.g., clarification, agreement, disagreement); and approximating English pronunciation patterns and connected speech (e.g., prominence, intonation, reduced forms) – all of which culminate in the production of formal presentations on academic topics. The course meets three (3) clock hours per week.