Materials for student presentations in ESOL course that uses the open textbook Communication Beginnings: An Introductory Listening and Speaking Text for English Language Learners by Della Jean Abrahams (http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=pdxopen).
Course Description
Presents oral communication as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, comprehension checks, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the communicative purpose. Develops listening comprehension and speaking skills at a low intermediate level. Addresses use of important language functions, such as asking for clarification, agreeing, and negotiating meaning. Includes one prepared speech. Introduces the English stress system, intonation, and certain consonant and vowel sounds. Places communication in the context of adult life roles.
Intended Outcome(s) for the Course:
Understand oral communication as a process that involves determination of purpose, selection and adjustment of strategies, comprehension checks, and integration of prior knowledge with new knowledge to address the communicative purpose.
Use knowledge about language, culture, and context to prepare for and accomplish communication tasks at the low intermediate level.
Use listening skills to understand and respond to different types of discourse.
Produce spoken English that is mostly understandable with some repetition or clarification.
Begin to identify and correct basic pronunciation problems.
Deliver a planned presentation on a familiar topic.
- Subject:
- Education
- Language Education (ESL)
- Material Type:
- Homework/Assignment
- Author:
- Sarah Bauer
- Date Added:
- 03/09/2020