Course Description
Designed to help international graduate students develop advanced English skills in understanding academic and professional lectures and reading materials and in speaking and writing for academic and professional purposes. Focus is on North American English used in context.
Athena Title
ACADEMIC COMM SKILL
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in ELAN 7030
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Comprehend gist and most supporting details in: (a) lectures intended for an educated North American public (b) academic lectures at the U.S. baccalaureate level in one's own discipline (c) conference presentations directed to practitioners of one's profession 2. Create intelligible impromptu oral responses (questions and comments) to lectures and presentations. 3. Develop listening and reading vocabulary in one's academic and professional fields as well as strategies for predicting and critiquing meaning. 4. Present a poster or demonstration in one's discipline or profession using intelligible extemporaneous language appropriate for a North American audience. 5. Participate constructively in work or research team meetings in North American contexts. 6. Emulate written style of typical reports in one's academic discipline or profession.
Topical Outline
1. Factors in oral intelligibility 2. Listening comprehension for lectures 3. Listening comprehension for meetings and conversation 4. Discourse strategies for meetings and conversation 5. Genre analysis for disciplinary and professional speaking and writing 6. Engagement in disciplinary and professional speaking and writing