TALK TALK TALK

By the end of the course students will:

– Feel more confident when having to interact in less structured situations.
– Learn and apply listening comprehension techniques such as predicting, listening for the gist vs. details, detecting signposts, inferring meaning, looking for non-verbal cues.
– Learn and apply speaking skills such as planning, monitoring their speech, using signposts, supporting ideas with examples and rephrasing ideas.
– Successfully communicate ideas orally with the help of prompts
– Be ready to talk and take a stand on current issues
– Expand their vocabulary within assigned topics.
– Be more aware of pronunciation features which can aid them to be better understood.
– Develop critical thinking skills such as reflecting, analyzing, predicting, inferring, interpreting, synthesizing and evaluating.

– Effective communication.
– Critical thinking.
– Collaboration and responsibility.